Love in a Time of Terror
Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.
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Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.
Barry Lopez Orion Aug 2020 15min Permalink
The story of Thor Holm Hansen—”Norwegian country singer, a former Outlaws motorcycle chieftain, and an ‘ambassador at large’ to a rebel Haitian government”—who claims to be back in Florida to locate his missing daughter.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach Feb 2013 20min Permalink
John Scott is a hockey enforcer — he makes his living fighting, not scoring goals. Scott wasn’t supposed to make the NHL. He certainly wasn’t supposed to make the all-star game. But when the fans voted him in, the league tried to keep him on the bench.
John Scott The Players' Tribune Jan 2016 10min Permalink
A good trip on psilocybin might be just the ticket to relieve anxiety and depression, particularly in the terminally ill. But are we ready to dive back in to psychedelic research?
Michael Pollan New Yorker Feb 2015 40min Permalink
The writer and his girlfriend move to the Dominican Republic, joining the rapidly expanding community of expats who claim to have found paradise. They promptly get robbed at gunpoint. To cope, he investigates the country.
Porter Fox Nowhere Magazine Oct 2010 40min Permalink
To some, Baltimore Jack’s choice to live off the grid was irresponsible. Others celebrated that he’d managed to break the shackles of convention. We look back on the life of an AT antihero.
Dan Koeppel Outside Sep 2019 30min Permalink
As medical researchers scramble to find the source of a fatal lung disease and officials seek to ban the sale of vape pens, our correspondent set out to separate reality from hysteria.
Amanda Chicago Lewis California Sunday Jan 2020 40min Permalink
On the appearance of an angel.
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Gabriel García Márquez New American Review Jan 1971 10min Permalink
Tensions eat away at a relationship between a musician and his girlfriend.
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Katie Brittain Vol 1. Brooklyn May 2014 Permalink
The preacher ran a prostitution ring out of his halfway house. The teenager posed as his nephew and later claimed he feared for his own life. Only one man they drove into the woods would survive.
Devin Friedman GQ Jul 2014 35min Permalink
This is what happens when you concoct game-fixing allegations against a Major League pitcher because of a perceived slight on Facebook.
Lance Williams, Brian Tuohy Center for Investigative Reporting Aug 2014 20min Permalink
On Leon Botstein and the future of Bard College, which he has run for four decades.
Alice Gregory New Yorker Sep 2014 25min Permalink
The story of TWA Flight 841.
Hear Buzz Bissinger discuss this story, a Pultizer finalist now available online for the first time, on the Longform Podcast.
Buzz Bissinger St. Paul Pioneer Press May 1981 25min Permalink
For the first time, the giants of the tech industry are spending more on creating, buying, and fighting patents than they are on R&D.
Part of New York Times’ ongoing iEconomy series.
Charles Duhigg, Steve Lohr New York Times Jan 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of Max Wade, a Marin County teenager on trial for stealing Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini and using it in the first drive-by in the history of Mill Valley, California.
Chris Roberts San Francisco Magazine Feb 2013 25min Permalink
How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”
Kevin Morris The Daily Dot May 2013 15min Permalink
The case of Richard Glossip, whose failed Supreme Court challenge of execution methods now leaves him waiting for death. But he still insists he’s innocent.
Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith The Intercept Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Five Vietnamese-American journalists were killed on American soil between 1981 and 1990. The prime suspects? Members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, a group of former military commanders from South Vietnam.
A.C. Thompson ProPublica Nov 2015 1h Permalink
The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.
Aman Sethi The Guardian Dec 2015 25min Permalink
Philanthropist and private equity mogul David Rubenstein is lauded for his patriotic donations, including half the cost of repairing the Washington Monument. He also helped save a controversial tax break billionaires love.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Mar 2015 30min Permalink
No one really knows the script for days like these, and neither did we.
Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks New York Times Mar 2011 10min Permalink
Ramón González’s middle school is a model for how an empowered principal can transform a troubled school. But can he maintain that momentum when the forces of reform are now working against him?
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Apr 2011 40min Permalink
A dispatch from the early days of AIDS:
It is as relentless as leukemia, as contagious as hepatitis, and its cause has eluded researchers for more than two years.
Robin Marantz New York Times Magazine Feb 1983 25min Permalink
In 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy and held the entire American diplomatic mission hostage for fifteen months. Twenty-five years later, the students reflected on their actions, many with regret.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Dec 2004 35min Permalink
One day Nejdra Nance realized the woman she had called Mom for 23 years may have been at the center of one of the most harrowing kidnappings in decades—hers.
Robert Kolker New York Oct 2011 25min Permalink