Soldiers of Misfortune
Profiles of Vietnam veterans several years after returning home.
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Profiles of Vietnam veterans several years after returning home.
Tracy Kidder The Atlantic Mar 1978 50min Permalink
A profile of celebrity astrophysicist Neil Tyson.
Carl Zimmer Playboy Jan 2012 Permalink
Reviewing Newt Gingrich as historian and intellectual.
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Aug 1995 20min Permalink
On the life of Ray Bradbury.
Daniel J. Flynn The American Conservative Jan 2012 15min Permalink
On the “unfair significance” of Jeremy Lin.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Feb 2012 10min Permalink
The making of Thelma & Louise.
Sheila Weller Vanity Fair Mar 2011 30min Permalink
A profile of filmmaker Michael Haneke.
John Wray New York Times Magazine Sep 2007 Permalink
A personal history of “America’s most misunderstood religion.”
Walter Kirn The New Republic Jul 2012 25min Permalink
Life inside a pair of small-town boarding houses.
Em DeMarco Narratively Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.
David Grann New Yorker Apr 2011 1h5min Permalink
The story of a young man killed in Juarez.
Eric Nusbaum Pitchers and Poets Mar 2009 Permalink
December 1944, Auschwitz.
Primo Levi New York Review of Books Jan 1986 10min Permalink
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The challenges facing the historians of the internet.
Ariel Bleicher IEEE Spectrum Mar 2011 15min Permalink
On dirty laundry and the meaning of freedom.
Rebecca Solnit Orion May 2013 Permalink
The work of Doctors Without Borders is in jeopardy.
Katrin Kuntz Der Spiegel Sep 2016 20min Permalink
Reckoning with the legacy of the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster.
Revisiting the 2006 masterpiece.
Abraham Riesman New York Dec 2016 20min Permalink
It’s one of our most in-demand natural resources, and it’s running out.
David Owen New Yorker May 2017 20min Permalink
On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”
Zadie Smith The Guardian Sep 2004 10min Permalink
Twenty years later, the author looks back.
Monica Lewinsky Vanity Fair Feb 2018 15min Permalink
The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min Permalink
A profile of the designer, who died on February 19, 2019.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2006 20min Permalink
A profile of “Cathy” creator Cathy Guisewite.
Rachel Syme The Cut Mar 2019 15min Permalink
A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2019 25min Permalink
Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to “lone defender of the billionaires.”
David Freedlander Curbed Nov 2020 30min Permalink