Simpson Family Values
An oral history of The Simpsons.
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An oral history of The Simpsons.
John Ortved Vanity Fair Aug 2007 40min Permalink
On the prosecution of former hedge fund star Raj Rajaratnam.
George Packer New Yorker Jun 2011 45min Permalink
On the cross-country travels of the fugitive mob boss.
Shelley Murphy The Boston Globe Jan 1998 15min Permalink
Over the last several weeks, dozens of lawmakers, strategists and advocates described the closed-door meetings and tactical decisions that led to approval of same-sex marriage in New York, about two years after it was rejected by the Legislature. This account is based on those interviews, most of which were granted on the condition of anonymity to describe conversations that were intended to be confidential.
Michael Barbaro New York Times Jun 2011 10min Permalink
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
Sarah Ellison Vanity Fair Jun 2011 30min Permalink
The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.
Lawrence Weschler The Virginia Quarterly Review Apr 2009 25min Permalink
A history of the gravestone laser-etching industry.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Jul 2011 10min Permalink
An investigation of human trafficking and the international sex trade.
Sean Flynn GQ Mar 2007 1h20min Permalink
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
Brian Phillips Grantland Aug 2011 15min Permalink
Excerpted from the author’s biography of mathematician Simon Phillips Norton.
Alexander Masters The Guardian Aug 2011 Permalink
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An early profile of Sasha Grey.
Dave Gardetta Los Angeles Nov 2006 25min Permalink
An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.
Christopher Watt Maisonneuve Sep 2011 10min Permalink
In Tripoli, after Gaddafi.
Rory Stewart London Review of Books Sep 2011 15min Permalink
A cultural history of the travel-writing.
Iain Manley Old World Wandering Oct 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of the art world’s most notorious dealer dynasty.
Suzanna Andrews Vanity Fair Mar 1998 35min Permalink
A journalist on the lingering effects of escaping a kidnapping.
Gregory D. Johnsen Buzzfeed Nov 2014 20min Permalink
On spectacular saintliness, holy anorexia, and female hysteria.
Hilary Mantel London Review of Books Mar 2004 25min Permalink
How the Border Patrol became America’s most out-of-control law enforcement agency.
Garrett M. Graff Politico Oct 2014 45min Permalink
Meet Ben Sherwood, the new head of the Disney/ABC Television Group.
Andrew Goldman New York Jan 2015 20min Permalink
The barely monitored use by cops of flashbangs, or military-style grenades.
Julia Angwin, Abbie Nehring ProPublica Jan 2015 15min Permalink
What one sergeant says he saw before the alleged suicides of three detainees.
Alexander Nazaryan Newsweek Jan 2015 Permalink
The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 30min Permalink
Can the insights of neuroscience help us get over our prejudices?
Jeneen Interlandi New York Times Magazine Mar 2015 25min Permalink
The making of an all-time great video game.
Blake J. Harris Read-Only Memory Mar 2015 25min Permalink
The death of Bobby Phills, an NBA player who made one terrible mistake.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Mar 2015 25min Permalink