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Inside the world of competitive fireworks.
Duncan Murrell Virginia Quarterly Review Jul 2015 30min Permalink
Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.
Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of World Jan 2021 25min Permalink
Life as a crime reporter in one of the most violent places in the world.
Samira Shackle The Guardian Oct 2015 20min Permalink
On Yemen’s uncertain future.
Joshua Hammer National Geographic Sep 2012 15min Permalink
In the slums adjacent to Mumbai’s airport.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Feb 2009 25min Permalink
The rise of Israel’s far right.
David Remnick New Yorker Jan 2013 35min Permalink
On nostalgia for Communism.
Agata Pyzik Frieze Magazine Oct 2011 10min Permalink
Kidnapping and international adoption.
Erin Siegal McIntyre Guernica Dec 2014 30min Permalink
A profile of Seif Qaddafi.
James Verini New York May 2011 Permalink
The eighteen-year-old Moscow dropout behind chatroulette.com.
Julia Ioffe New Yorker May 2010 15min Permalink
Investigating the world of “belly torture.”
Laura Yan The Outline Mar 2017 Permalink
Life as a Syrian refugee in Germany.
Matthew McNaught n+1 Aug 2017 45min Permalink
How Kaws short-circuited the art world.
Arty Nelson GQ Aug 2019 25min Permalink
Inside the world of competitive darts.
Amos Barshad Victory Journal Aug 2019 15min Permalink
On Beirut’s broken sewage system.
Lina Mounzer The Baffler Jul 2020 15min Permalink
The controversy-filled world of shipping pallets.
Jacob Hodes Cabinet Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A profile of a doctor fighting Ebola in Uganda.
Blaine Harden New York Times Magazine Feb 2001 30min Permalink
The author attempts to interview Grigori Perelman, a reclusive mathematical genius.
Brett Forrest Playboy Jul 2012 15min Permalink
How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China’s corruption.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Oct 2012 30min Permalink
Elegy for Aleppo.
Amal Hanano Foreign Policy Dec 2012 30min Permalink
How humans evolve in the modern world.
Marlene Zuk The Chronicle of Higher Education Feb 2013 15min Permalink
Covering an election in Peru’s largest prison.
Daniel Alarcón Harper's Feb 2012 35min Permalink
A profile of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prime minister of Turkey.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2012 40min Permalink
Tracing a secretive cyber-war’s battles and casualties.
Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Jul 2013 30min Permalink
Tracking the circuitous fall of a Chinese political star.
Lauren Hilgers Harper's Mar 2013 30min Permalink