Revenge Killing
The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.
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The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2015 25min Permalink
The lives of six people who survived the atomic bomb.
John Hersey New Yorker Aug 1946 2h Permalink
“Super tunnels” are a speciality of the Sinaloa drug cartel – and its leader, El Chapo.
Monte Reel New Yorker Aug 2015 20min Permalink
Hanging out with one of America’s most hated pundits.
Mitchell Sunderland Broadly Aug 2015 20min Permalink
On the 1915 hanging of Leo Frank in Marietta, Georgia.
Steve Oney Esquire Sep 1985 35min Permalink
The three men vying to be the next publisher of the New York Times.
Gabriel Sherman New York Aug 2015 20min Permalink
A moment of racism at Harvard leads the writer to consider Huckleberry Finn.
Kenzaburo Oe The Literary Hub Oct 2015 15min Permalink
On the wives of whalers and their dildos.
Ben Shattuck Literary Hub Oct 2015 30min Permalink
A profile of Henry Hook, the world’s best crossword puzzler, who died this week.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Mar 2002 25min Permalink
On Republican consultant John Weaver and the art of political seduction.
Jason Zengerle Politico Nov 2015 35min Permalink
On the response to the Paris attacks.
Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2015 15min Permalink
A former member of SEAL Team 6 sheds her disguise.
Devin Friedman GQ Nov 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of the UFC fighter after her first loss.
Ramona Shelburne ESPNw Dec 2015 10min Permalink
The life and death of a gorilla named Julia.
Anna Krien The Monthly Dec 2015 20min Permalink
The ‘repo men’ of the high seas.
Ian Urbina New York Times Dec 2015 Permalink
How a father and son solved the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise.
Sean B. Carroll Nautilus Jan 2016 20min Permalink
The art of the voiceover.
Mac McClelland Medium Nov 2014 20min Permalink
A profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.
Ellen Cushing San Francisco Nov 2014 25min Permalink
The effects of legalized prostitution in Germany.
Nisha Lilia Diu The Telegraph Mar 2014 25min Permalink
Exploring the darkest corridors of the Internet.
Jed Lipinski Mental Floss Dec 2012 15min Permalink
On the appeal of Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
Rachel Syme Grantland Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Inside the men’s rights movement—and the army of misogynists it spawned.
Mariah Blake Mother Jones Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Trying to make sense our current age of disbelief.
Joel Achenbach National Geographic Feb 2015 15min Permalink
A leading Guantanamo interrogator was once a Chicago police detective accused of police brutality.
Spencer Ackerman The Guardian Feb 2015 20min Permalink
The afterlife of a thoughtless, cruel insult.
Patrick Smith Buzzfeed Mar 2015 15min Permalink