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The wild fire that consumed Harbin Hot Springs, a legendary clothing-optional resort in Northern California.
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The wild fire that consumed Harbin Hot Springs, a legendary clothing-optional resort in Northern California.
Brandon R. Reynolds San Francisco Dec 2015 20min Permalink
Australian scientists Pat and Peter Shaw always planned to take their lives, together. After saying goodbye to their daughters last October, they did.
Julia Medew The Age Jan 2016 Permalink
An attorney pieces together a life cut short.
Burke M. Butler The Marshall Project Mar 2016 20min Permalink
On his twelfth appearance on Letterman, Bill Hicks killed. The network refused to air it.
Mike Sager GQ Sep 1994 30min Permalink
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
James Somers The Atlantic Apr 2017 25min Permalink
Baltimore-area renters complain about a property owner they say is neglectful and litigious. Few know their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica May 2017 25min Permalink
A high-powered Silicon Valley attorney dies. His ex-wife investigates, and finds a web of drug abuse in his profession.
Eilene Zimmerman New York Times Jul 2017 15min Permalink
Articles about meditation, solitude, and the quietest square inch in America.
A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.
George Saunders GQ Jun 2006 40min
A trip to one of America’s quietest places with a man who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.
Kathleen Dean Moore Orion Nov 2008 15min
Silent since a car accident nine years before, Erik Ramsey prepares to speak again.
Joshua Foer Esquire Oct 2008
A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.
William Deresiewicz American Scholar Apr 2010 25min
John Cage’s art of noise.
Alex Ross New Yorker Oct 2010 20min
A trip to India for total silence.
Michael Finkel Men’s Journal Aug 2012 20min
The Barden family today.
Eli Saslow The Washington Post Jun 2013 25min
Jun 2006 – Jun 2013 Permalink
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Oct 2017 55min Permalink
Inside the boardroom as Uber’s press nightmare unfolded.
Eric Newcomer, Brad Stone Businessweek Jan 2018 15min Permalink
Inside the disturbing “cult” of young acolytes that catapulted conductor James Levine’s career.
Malcolm Gay, Kay Lazar Boston Globe Mar 2018 Permalink
The story behind Tony Kushner’s examination of AIDS and homosexuality.
Isaac Butler, Dan Kois Slate Jun 2016 1h5min Permalink
A look at the rapper’s decade-plus ordeal.
Jessica Brand, Ethan Brown In Justice Today Apr 2018 25min Permalink
It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.
Katherine Gammon Hakai Magazine Oct 2018 15min Permalink
Thinking about launching your own media startup? You might want to consider my crazy story first.
Jamie O'Grady The Cauldron Jan 2019 25min Permalink
Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2019 30min Permalink
A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.
He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going?
Claire Martin Bloomberg Businessweek May 2019 20min Permalink
What happens when the chefs behind North America’s most hedonistic restaurant quit drinking.
Hannah Goldfield New Yorker May 2019 20min Permalink
What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.
Jessica Pressler New York Jul 2019 35min Permalink
(It’s PB&J.)
Baxter Holmes ESPN Mar 2017 15min Permalink
Three deaths in the mountains, and a community left to wonder: How close should we stand to our own mortality to feel alive?
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress during the war in Afghanistan. They were not, and they knew it.
Craig Whitlock Washington Post Dec 2019 30min Permalink
In an age of historic disparity, Abigail Disney and the Patriotic Millionaires take on income inequality.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Dec 2019 35min Permalink
A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
Amy Wallace GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink