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The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.
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The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.
Mark Singer New Yorker Aug 2012 40min Permalink
Each year, thousands of people pay to play eighteen holes of golf at Angola, “the largest maximum-security prison in the country.”
Josh Begley Tomorrow Nov 2012 10min Permalink
Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.
On the reality TV empire of Thom Beers, creator of Deadliest Catch.
Charles Homans New York Times Magazine Dec 2012 15min Permalink
On the culture of misogyny and abuse at one of the nation’s largest megachurches.
Bryan Smith Chicago Magazine Dec 2012 Permalink
Why a type of gasoline may be responsible for periods of increased crime in the U.S. and abroad.
Kevin Drum Mother Jones Jan 2013 20min Permalink
A case of mistaken identity and the incarceration of an innocent man.
Benjamin Weiser New York Times Magazine Aug 2000 30min Permalink
The story of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who took her own life after nude photos of her were circulated at school.
Nina Burleigh Rolling Stone Sep 2013 25min Permalink
A self-published author of pick-up guides visits the “pacifist nanny state” of Denmark and finds the social safety interferes with his seduction strategies.
Katie J.M. Baker Dissent Oct 2013 Permalink
Exploring the vast underground world of New York City with three of the people who know it best.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Oct 2013 35min Permalink
Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Nov 2013 15min Permalink
A tale of ambition, motherhood and political mythmaking in the race for governor of Texas.
Robert Draper New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 30min Permalink
On Baylor’s freshman basketball star Perry Jones and how the new era of one-season careers has changed the landscape of college basketball.
A profile of Christopher Brosius, the “Willy Wonka of fragrances,” whose latest creation is designed to not be smelled.
Geoffrey Gray New York Apr 2011 Permalink
A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.
John McPhee New Yorker Feb 1987 1h55min Permalink
A two-part breakdown of how mental illness is diagnosed and treated.
Marcia Angell New York Review of Books Jul 2011 35min Permalink
A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Sep 2011 20min Permalink
On the battle between Shaquille O’Neal and his former IT guy, who’s in control of much of O’Neal’s archived (and often damning) correspondence.
Gus Garcia-Roberts The Miami New Times Sep 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of Jill Abramson from her first weeks as executive editor of The New York Times.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Oct 2011 45min Permalink
A holiday tradition in the Netherlands involving blackface has sparked a debate about race, the legacy of slavery, and the vestiges of colonialism.
Emily Raboteau VQR Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Dec 2014 35min Permalink
David Simon and Richard Price, two of the greatest crime storytellers of our time, talk about their craft.
David Simon, Richard Price Guernica Apr 2015 25min Permalink
After decades of failed revitalization strategies, a town of 10,000 tries another.
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Dec 2011 30min Permalink
The dissolution of Brooklyn softcore skin-mag Jacques and the marriage of the couple that created it.
Jonathan Tayler Brooklyn Ink Jan 2012 10min Permalink
A story of endurance in the face of unimaginably brutal conditions.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jan 2012 15min Permalink