The Girl in the Closet
Lauren spent six years of her childhood locked in a closet, starved and tortured by her birth mother and stepfather. Miraculously, she survived; that’s when her long road to recovery began.
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Lauren spent six years of her childhood locked in a closet, starved and tortured by her birth mother and stepfather. Miraculously, she survived; that’s when her long road to recovery began.
A profile of personal finance guru Dave Ramsey, who built his biblically inspired get-out-of-debt empire on the premise “it’s within your power to not take part in recessions and the economic troubles facing American families.”
Helaine Olen Pacific Standard Oct 2013 20min Permalink
Peter Zumthor, who recently won the Pritzker Prize after a career of few buildings and mostly modest-in-size projects, on the “architecture of actually making things”
Michael Kimmelman New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 20min Permalink
NYT journalist David Rohde’s alternately terrifying and absurd first person account of his kidnapping en route to an interview in Southern Afghanistan and the subsequent seven months he, along with his translator and driver, spent in captivity in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
David Rohde New York Times Oct 2009 1h Permalink
How a musical subculture evolved alongside a technological subculture:
Rave's rise mirrors the Web's in many ways. Both mixed rhetorical utopianism with insider snobbery. Both were future-forward "free spaces" with special appeal to geeks and wonks.
Michaelangelo Matos NPR Jul 2011 15min Permalink
How Tim Durham funded a libertine lifestyle—dozens of luxury cars, Playboy-themed parties, a plethora of failed businesses—on the backs of unwitting Ohioans, many of them Amish.
Annie Lowrey Businessweek Jul 2011 15min Permalink
One day you’re teaching yourself to play the piano in hotel lobbies, the next you’re contributing a song to a David Lynch soundtrack.
Tal Rosenberg Chicago Reader Feb 2015 15min Permalink
“Some of the best lines — and I’ve been lucky to hear really nutso lines over the years — are not in response to any kind of question. It’s in response to, ‘I don’t know.’”
Alex Pappademas Grantland Mar 2015 20min Permalink
There’s an entire micro-economy based on the pursuit of betterment. The author—58, full-figured, and ferocious in his consumption of cigarettes and scotch—agreed to test its limits.
Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair Dec 2007 30min Permalink
Hanging out in Moscow with Russia’s yuppie, 20-something journalist revolutionaries:
In other words, the protest was being brought to you by the same people you would have relied on, weeks earlier, for restaurant picks.
Michael Idov New York Jan 2012 20min Permalink
Helg Sgarbi had perfected the art of seducing, swindling, and blackmailing ultra-rich women across Europe. Fleecing a billionaire BMW heiress should have been the crowning achievement of his career.
Kevin Gray Details Sep 2009 Permalink
Raffaello Follieri was young, handsome. He was Italian. He was dating Anne Hathaway, hobnobbing with Bill Clinton, and using contacts at the Vatican to launch a lucrative business in the States. Then he was in jail.
Michael Shnayerson Vanity Fair Oct 2008 40min Permalink
If your ex-spouse takes your child and hightails it abroad, the legal system often isn’t on your side. So what can you do? One option: hire a former Army ranger named Gus Zamora to take back your kid.
Nadya Labi The Atlantic Nov 2009 35min Permalink
After nearly a year in Afghanistan—during which almost half of their unit was killed or injured—paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne have one more mission before they go home.
Brian Mockenhaupt The Atlantic Nov 2010 35min Permalink
Alan Young has been running the same scam for years: posing as a member of The Temptations and smooth-talking his way into luxury hotel rooms and prostitutes. Despite his clear charm, he admits he has “no skills other than being a con man.”
Kara Platoni East Bay Express Mar 2002 30min Permalink
Behind the scenes of Conan vs. Leno. An excerpt from The War for Late Night.
Bill Carter Vanity Fair Nov 2010 30min Permalink
Dandenis Muñoz Mosquera, a.k.a. “La Quica,” was one of Pablo Escobar’s top killers. Now he’s in a maximum security prison in Colorado. Here’s the thing: for all his crimes, La Quica may not have committed the one that put him away.
Alan Prendergast Westword May 2001 20min Permalink
A profile of Martha Nussbaum, whose ideas illuminate the often ignored elements of human life—aging, inequality, and emotion.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jul 2016 35min Permalink
On the story we tell ourselves about artificial intelligence.
Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Oct 2016 30min Permalink
What happens when an impoverished island nation enters into a deal to sell its own citizenship in bulk.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian The Guardian Nov 2015 20min Permalink
Google and Tesla are spending billions to develop driverless technology. George Hotz used an Acura.
Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink
Feminism brought the opposition together for the Women’s March on Washington. But how long will that last, and how many converts can it win?
Amanda Hess New York Times Magazine Feb 2017 25min Permalink
Bill Ackman’s hedge fund planned to make a fortune while doing good by exposing Herbalife as a scheme that preyed upon and lied to the poor. How one of the highest profile stock shorts in market history went awry.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Feb 2017 35min Permalink
How junk arson science convicted a mother of killing her own daughters.
Liliana Segura theintercept.com Mar 2017 55min Permalink
Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.
Ben Taub New Yorker Apr 2017 45min Permalink