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On his anxiety as a teenager, the treatment he was given for it, and the way that the psychiatry of the day failed his family.
Merrill Weiner Cuepoint Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Forty years ago, a man was killed in Chicago because he was black. The daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death.
Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Mar 2012 45min Permalink
She survived an evil, gruesome attack. Her partner did not. An account of a victim, a widow, telling her story on the witness stand.
Update, 4/16/12: This piece was just awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Eli Sanders The Stranger Jun 2011 20min Permalink
Kurdistan is the safest and most stable region in Iraq and at the center of its modern history is Amna Surak Prison, ground zero for both a genocide and an uprising.
Christopher Watt Maisonneuve Jul 2008 15min Permalink
How Warren Beatty seduced the studios into making the comedy Ishtar, which set the modern bar for cinematic debacles. (An excerpt from Peter Biskind’s Star.)
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Feb 2010 35min Permalink
In 1937, Harvard researchers began following the lives of 268 students. Year after year, the men were interviewed and given medical and psychological exams. The goal? Find a formula for happiness.
Joshua Wolf Shenk The Atlantic Jun 2009 45min Permalink
Alan Young has been running the same scam for years: posing as a member of The Temptations and smooth-talking his way into luxury hotel rooms and prostitutes. Despite his clear charm, he admits he has “no skills other than being a con man.”
Kara Platoni East Bay Express Mar 2002 30min Permalink
Behind the scenes of Conan vs. Leno. An excerpt from The War for Late Night.
Bill Carter Vanity Fair Nov 2010 30min Permalink
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The young Woody Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never make it as a performer and then does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Feb 2010 45min Permalink
Dandenis Muñoz Mosquera, a.k.a. “La Quica,” was one of Pablo Escobar’s top killers. Now he’s in a maximum security prison in Colorado. Here’s the thing: for all his crimes, La Quica may not have committed the one that put him away.
Alan Prendergast Westword May 2001 20min Permalink
On the last day of their junior year at Harvard, one roommate kills the other, then hangs herself. The press descends. A year later, a reporter searches for the real story.
Melanie Thernstrom New Yorker Jun 1996 35min Permalink
On the chaotic letters of journalist and Dr. Strangelove screenwriter Terry Southern.
Will Stephenson Oxford American Mar 2016 25min Permalink
In Liberland, a small borderland between Serbia and Croatia, ‘‘government will be banned except for three things: security, legal stuff and diplomacy.’’
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New York Times Magazine Aug 2015 35min Permalink
An interview with Michael Schur, who wrote for Saturday Night Live and The Office before co-creating Parks and Recreation and Brookyn Nine-Nine.
Stephanie Palumbo The Believer Nov 2015 15min Permalink
“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”
George Packer New Yorker Feb 2009 40min Permalink
A mysterious cache of documents could prove that a man serving a life sentence for homicide was framed by corrupt Alabama authorities—if the documents, and the man, can be believed.
Leon Neyfakh Slate Feb 2017 50min Permalink
On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin.
David Wolman The Atavist Magazine Mar 2017 35min Permalink
Horseshoe crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel. Which means it’s incredibly valuable. Which means biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 crabs a year. Nobody knows quite what that means for the crabs.
Caren Chesler Popular Mechanics Apr 2017 15min Permalink
“She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.”
Alex Tizon The Atlantic May 2017 40min Permalink
An important house in Florida history is for sale, its future uncertain. Some want the historic house preserved, while the racism that fueled the Rosewood riots remains.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jun 2018 10min Permalink
In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.
Matthew Shaer The New York Times Magazine Jan 2019 25min Permalink
A profile of the PR agent who blurs truth for clients like Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly. “If it were a relationship, we’d call it gaslighting, but it’s a profession, so we call it PR.”
Lyz Lenz Columbia Journalism Review Feb 2019 15min Permalink
Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.
Jia Tolentino New Yorker May 2019 25min Permalink
How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization.
Jia Tolentino The Guardian Jul 2019 20min Permalink
He was a convicted felon who found a niche in Seattle’s construction boom. As the region’s fortunes rose and fell—and rose again—so did his. Then a fatal boating accident came for Michael Powers’s fairy-tale ending.
James Ross Gardner Seattle Met Aug 2109 30min Permalink