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On prospecting for space rocks in Kansas.
Ben Paynter Wired Jan 2007 10min Permalink
Yearning for conception.
Belle Boggs Orion Mar 2012 15min Permalink
Crime, drugs, and politics in Guadalajara.
William Finnegan New Yorker Jun 2012 40min Permalink
Growing up with Charlie Brown.
Jonathan Franzen New Yorker Nov 2004 30min Permalink
Harmony smiles, blinks and frowns. She can hold a conversation, tell jokes and quote Shakespeare. She’ll remember your birthday, McMullen told me, what you like to eat, and the names of your brothers and sisters. She can hold a conversation about music, movies and books. And of course, Harmony will have sex with you whenever you want.
Jenny Kleeman The Guardian Apr 2017 25min Permalink
A profile of Sam Shepard.
John Lahr New Yorker Feb 2010 20min Permalink
A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi.
Katie Gilbert Oxford American Sep 2017 50min Permalink
There the man in the shorts—later identified as a Russian agent using the alias Richard Murphy of New Jersey—handed Michael Zottoli from Seattle two items: a flash memory card and a bag that held $150,000 in cash.
Within nine months they’d both be behind bars.
James Ross Gardner Seattle Met Oct 2017 20min Permalink
From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known, never caught, and might still be out there. The author, along with several others, couldn’t stop working on the case.
Michelle McNamara Los Angeles Feb 2013 30min Permalink
On a transition and its aftermath.
Gabriel Mac GQ Jul 2019 20min Permalink
On learning to jog.
Haruki Murakami New Yorker Jun 2008 20min Permalink
How political science understands voters.
Lous Menand New Yorker Aug 2004 Permalink
What makes a graduate program predatory?
Anne Helen Petersen Culture Study Jul 2021 10min Permalink
How morality and geography crystalize in Arkansas.
Alice Driver Bitter Southerner Oct 2021 20min Permalink
“Hillary Clinton was never a shy person.”
Connie Bruck New Yorker May 1994 2h10min Permalink
On one of the great final acts in sports history.
David Halberstam The New Yorker Dec 1998 20min
On the self-inflicted torture of Rick Barry.
Tony Kornheiser Sports Illustrated Apr 1983 35min
On the brilliance, and elusiveness, of the great Knicks point guard.
Woody Allen Sport Nov 1977 15min
The most successful player in league history, Bill Russell, was also its most candid.
Gilbert Rogin Sports Illustrated Nov 1963
A rare glimpse of Kobe Bryant’s nonstaged private life.
Mike Sager Esquire Nov 2007 25min
The story of Billy Ray Bates, who had the talent to be an all-time great, but drank himself out of the league and ended up playing in the Philippines, where he had a few wild years before booze ended his career for good.
Rafe Bartholomew Deadspin Jun 2010 15min
Nov 1963 – Jun 2010 Permalink
A father and his daughter’s brain tumor.
Aleksandar Hemon New Yorker Jun 2011 25min
How Marv Marinovich’s plan to engineer his son into the greatest quarterback of all time backfired.
Mike Sager Esquire May 2009 1h15min
The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”
Paul Wayment made a profound mistake, left his 2-year-old son alone in his truck as he tracked deer in the wilderness. The boy was gone when he returned. The story of a collective struggle to find a just punishment.
Barry Siegel Los Angeles Times Dec 2001 30min
Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization—if they remain together, they’ll drown together.
Justin Heckert Men's Journal Nov 2009 25min
On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.
Rick Reilly Sports Illustrated Sep 1988
Sep 1988 – Jun 2011 Permalink
Talese never got an interview with Ol’ Blue Eyes, but, as he told his editor, after three months of reporting he may have gotten something more elusive: “the truth about the man.”
Gay Talese Esquire Apr 1966
Searching for the hermetic media giant.
Philip Weiss New York Aug 2007 25min
Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage—Asian guru and secret oxygen chamber in tow.
John Jeremiah Sullivan GQ Nov 2006 35min
A pilgrimage to J.D. Salinger’s New Hampshire home.
Ron Rosenbaum Esquire Jun 1997 35min
Searching for Kirk Johnson, whose ass was one of the Internet’s earliest memes.
Adrian Chen Gawker Apr 2012 15min
Apr 1966 – Apr 2012 Permalink
The story of a small town just outside Pittsburgh that has suffered through a half-century of economic decline, racial tension, and endless crime. Despite that trajectory, or perhaps because of it, Aliquippa has also produced an astounding number of NFL players.
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated Jan 2011
On accent, culture, and a legendary football announcer.
Elena Passarello Creative Nonfiction Jan 2008 10min
On the impact of steel giant, Andrew Carnegie.
Christopher Hitchens Atlantic Dec 2006 10min
The possible resurrection of a Pittsburgh borough.
Sue Halpern New York Times Magazine Feb 2011
A profile of one of Mr. Rogers, who got his start at Pittsburgh’s WQED station and filmed there from 1968 until his final show.
Nov 1998 – Feb 2011 Permalink
Navigating life as a brilliant teenage girl.
David Finkel Washington Post Jun 1993 30min Permalink
America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.
Lauren Hilgers New Yorker Oct 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of Merle Haggard.
Chris Heath GQ Nov 2005 25min Permalink
A profile of Henry Hook, crossword puzzle master.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Mar 2002 25min Permalink
How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min
Inside the underground economy of stolen bikes.
Patrick Symmes Outside Jan 2012 25min
A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.
Brian Boucher New York Jan 2006 15min
An early investigation of “Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff.
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Oct 2009 30min
How Craigslist dealers do business.
David Shapiro, Joe Coscarelli The Village Voice Apr 2011 15min
Jan 2006 – Aug 2013 Permalink
On boxer Canelo Alvarez.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Sep 2012 Permalink