Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man
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The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson’s billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Aug 2018 1h5min Permalink
How one man’s quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood.
Daniel Walters The Inlander Dec 2018 20min Permalink
A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.
David Foster Wallace Gourmet Aug 2004 30min Permalink
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
Steven Lance The Atavist Magazine Dec 2020 1h10min Permalink
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?
Jason Fagone San Francisco Chronicle Jul 2021 50min Permalink
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist. Her 2017 GQ piece “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof” won the National Magazine Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
“I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d ever seen. And I was so mad. I still get so mad. Words aren’t enough. I’m angry about it. I can’t do anything to Dylann Roof, physically, so this is what I could do.”
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Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.
“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just temporary.”
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A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.
E. Jean Carroll Spin Jun 2001 30min Permalink
A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica May 2012 40min Permalink
When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Matter Dec 2014 30min Permalink
On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.
John Homans Vanity Fair Nov 2017 Permalink
A family turns to murder to save one of their own.
Lauren Smiley San Francisco Jul 2013 25min Permalink
The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.
Maggie Shipstead Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2013 Permalink
A man had a gift for teaching people to beat the polygraph. Now he’s going to prison.
Drake Bennett Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2015 20min Permalink
Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.
Erika Hayasaki California Sunday Sep 2015 20min Permalink
How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.
Michael E. Miller Miami New Times Nov 2013 20min Permalink
A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Feb 2012 Permalink
Jimmy McNulty, Mike Daisey, and the problems with skirting the system to get to the greater truth.
Aaron Bady The New Inquiry Mar 2012 10min Permalink
The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee GQ Jun 2012 25min Permalink
Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.
Michael Graff Charlotte Magazine Jan 2015 25min Permalink
On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.
David Quammen National Geographic Oct 2010 15min Permalink
A daughter investigates her father’s belief that the government is subjecting him and thousands more to to mind control.
Jean Guerrero Wired Oct 2018 25min Permalink
Jered Threatin tried to fake his way to fame and got caught red-handed. Or did he?
Jessica Lussenhop BBC Dec 2018 25min Permalink
“Yesterday I was just googling, I was going on YouTube to see how to microwave pasta.”
Zack Baron GQ May 2020 30min Permalink