In the Ashes of Ghost Ship
He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.
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He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.
Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 45min Permalink
Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match—but not on Tinder, OkCupid or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”
Hillary Flynn, Keith Cousins, Elizabeth Naismith Picciani Buzzfeed, ProPublica Dec 2019 30min Permalink
The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in danger all over again
Sabrina Weiss Wired UK Nov 2019 15min Permalink
On life as a police patrolman.
Originally published in 1997 under a pen name in The New Yorker. Appears now for the first time under the author’s known identity.
Edward Conlon The Sun Magazine Nov 1997 35min Permalink
How is it that literature has produced a wealth of information about the sex lives of straight white men and yet so little about the abortions they have or have not paid for?
Wyatt Williams The Believer Jan 2020 15min Permalink
The iconic actor played Iceman, Doc Holliday, Batman, and Jim Morrison, but behind all the mythic roles was a man grasping for meaning wherever he could find it. Here he opens up about cancer, strength, and death.
Alex Pappademas Men's Health Apr 2020 15min Permalink
Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and inventor Christiaan Huygens’ early work on probability paved the way for his very modern evaluation of what alien life might look like.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams The Public Domain Review Oct 2020 20min Permalink
For years, a tactical police unit in Mount Vernon, New York, reigned with impunity—protecting drug dealers, planting evidence, brutalizing citizens. Then one of its own started covertly documenting the abuse.
George Joseph Esquire Mar 2021 20min Permalink
The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink
Thirty years ago, the biggest celebrities on earth opened a chain restaurant. For a few years, it was the hottest ticket in town. Then it went bankrupt. Twice.
Kate Storey Esquire Jun 2021 25min Permalink
Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organized their societies—and hint at possibilities for our own,
David Graeber, David Wengrow Guardian Oct 2021 25min Permalink
A profile of Uruguay President José Mujica, a former revolutionary who’s been shot six times, was imprisoned for 14 years and, since taking office, has shunned the presidential mansion in favor of a small farm while legalizing gay marriage, abortion and marijuana.
Krishna Andavolu Vice May 2014 15min Permalink
“The case of Lisl Auman, who first wrote me from prison three years ago, is so rotten and wrong and shameful that I feel dirty just for knowing about it, and so should you.”
Hunter S. Thompson Vanity Fair Jun 2004 35min Permalink
A chance encounter with a movie star on an airplane.
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Miranda July New Yorker Jun 2007 10min Permalink
Scenes from a local bar in winter.
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Daniel DiFranco Wyvern Lit Aug 2014 Permalink
Separated from his older brother at a train, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. In his 20s, living in Australia, he began his search for his birth home armed with nothing but hazy memories and Google Earth.
David Kushner Vanity Fair Oct 2012 20min Permalink
An interview with a woman who works in one of the exclusive hostess bars in Tokyo’s Ginza district, where an elite clientele pay heavily for champagne, whiskey, and conversation, and client-hostess relationships can span decades.
Shimon Tanaka The Rumpus Dec 2012 Permalink
From 1975-1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed more than 50 tons of weed in the United States. The operation ruined his family and destroyed his life. Three decades later, his son came looking for answers.
Tony Dokoupil Newsweek Jul 2009 15min Permalink
The filmmaker on his relationship with former Manson Family member, currently serving a life sentence for murder. An excerpt from Role Models.
John Waters Huffington Post Aug 2009 1h Permalink
On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.
Errol Morris Slate Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Each soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan generated around 10 pounds of garbage per day. Most of that trash—along with used equipment and medical supplies and other wastes of war—was burned in open-air pits, emitting a toxic smoke that many soliders blame for their poor health today.
Katie Drummond The Verge Oct 2013 Permalink
In an old mine an hour north of Pittsburgh, 600 federal employees manage paperwork for the government’s retirement system. By hand. On paper. Without computers. The same exact way they always have.
David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Mar 2014 Permalink
The story of Dean Corll and his accomplices, who killed over 20 teenage boys in the Heights neighborhood of Houston in the early 1970s, and the families searching for their missing sons.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2011 45min Permalink
How digital shifts the way we produce, distribute, and consume content:
The future book — the digital book — is no longer an immutable brick. It's ethereal and networked, emerging publicly in fits and starts. An artifact ‘complete’ for only the briefest of moments.
Craig Mod craigmod.com Jun 2011 25min Permalink
The author tracked down “the other” Alan – Alan Z. Feuer – for a story last year. After the other Alan’s death, however, the author learns the truth about the society man’s humble past.
Alan Feuer New York Times Apr 2012 10min Permalink