
A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof
“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”
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“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah GQ Aug 2017 50min Permalink
Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.
Lizzie Presser ProPublica May 2021 25min Permalink
For more than a decade, the employees of a Washington think tank were traumatized by an unlikely harasser: a career Foreign Service officer. In hundreds of emails and voicemails, he called them “Arab American terrorist murderers” and ranted about how they should be cleansed. Yet there was almost nothing they could do.
Britt Peterson Washingtonian Jun 2021 20min Permalink
On those rare instances when I would think about having a child, I assumed her life would be less complicated than my own. The stubborn optimism of the immigrant dictates that while your own life often shows just how quickly things can get catastrophically worse, American progress remains immutable.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink
</h2>David Foster Wallace, Sheryl Sandberg, Jon Stewart — a collection of classic graduation speeches.
From football fields in Texas to the real Ridgemont High, a collection of picks to help remember a time you might rather forget.
On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.
Buzz Bissinger Sports Illustrated Sep 1990 25min
Her suicide made headlines around the world after classmates were indicted on felony charges related to bullying, but the real story wasn’t that simple.
Emily Bazelon Slate Jul 2010 15min
At age 22, the author went undercover at his old high school. An excerpt of the book that became the film.
Cameron Crowe Playboy Sep 1981 15min
Mr. Lindwall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindwall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.
Robert Kurson Esquire Mar 2000
Sixteen years after graduating, an alumnus heads back to his old stomping grounds in Cleveland.
Devin Friedman GQ Nov 2006 30min
How two love-struck, type-A high school students almost got away with murder.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 1996 40min
Navigating life as a brilliant teenage girl.
David Finkel Washington Post Jun 1993 30min
The profile of a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson who tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Sep 2014 20min
An essay on a fatal car crash in the author’s youth.
Michael Paterniti GQ Mar 2015 30min
The science behind why high school sucks.
Jennifer Senior New York Jan 2013 15min
Sep 1981 – Mar 2015 Permalink
Keiko, Nessie, and giant squids: a collection of picks on animals from the deep.
An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.
David Grann New Yorker May 2004 45min
A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.
David Foster Wallace Gourmet Aug 2004 30min
Stalking the disappearing bluefin tuna, the world’s most valuable wild animal.
John Seabrook Harper's Jun 1994 30min
A trip to Scotland and an investigation of enduring belief.
Tom Bissell VQR Dec 1998 35min
On the mysterious and moderately intelligent giant Pacific octopus.
Sy Montgomery Orion Oct 2011 20min
A profile of a celebrity whale.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Sep 2002 25min
In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floating infant toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.
Donovan Hohn Harper's Jan 2007 1h35min
In February 2010, a killer whale named Tilikum dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity. This is his story.
Tim Zimmermann Outside Jul 2010 35min
The story of the loneliest whale in the world.
Leslie Jamison The Atavist Magazine Aug 2014 50min
Jun 1994 – Aug 2014 Permalink
Feature Writing, Reporting, Essays and Criticism, Public Interest — a full list of the articles nominated today.
Previously: Our picks for the best of 2013.
"His friends remembered when Richard became famous. It was the year the hippies came to San Francisco. Richard had published one novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, but it had sold miserably 743 copies and his publisher, Grove Press, had dropped its option on Trout Fishing in America."
Lawrence Wright Rolling Stone Apr 1985 30min Permalink
Life as a serial killer's kid, a rare interview with Stephen King and Chris Rock's last chance to become a leading man — the most read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
Life as a serial killer’s daughter.
Melissa Moore BBC 10min
A profile of Chris Rock as he makes one last attempt to jump from standup to leading man.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker 25min
A son’s love letter to his sick mom.
Cord Jefferson Matter 20min
The author on why he belives in God (“It makes things better”), the perils of writing high (“Annie Wilkes is cocaine, she was my number-one fan”) and what he thinks of other writers (“Hemingway sucks, basically”).
Andy Greene Rolling Stone 30min
Experiments in workday productivity.
Kevin Roose Matter 10min
The story of 11-year-old Sally Horner’s abduction changed the course of 20th-century literature. She just never got to tell it herself.
Sarah Weinman Hazlitt Nov 2014 35min Permalink
Before the market crashed and home prices tumbled, before federal investigators showed up and hauled away the community records, before her property managers pled guilty for conspiring to rig neighborhood elections, and before her real estate lawyer allegedly tried to commit suicide by overdosing on drugs and setting fire to her home, Wanda Murray thought that buying a condominium in Las Vegas was a pretty good idea.
Felix Gillette Businessweek Dec 2011 20min Permalink
Diamond heists, LonelyGirl15, and a trip to compete in the U.S. Open sumo championships—Joshua Davis on Longform.
A collection of profiles whose subjects—Frank Sinatra, Axl Rose, Matt Drudge, and more—wouldn’t cooperate with the writer. New at Slate.
Reprints Arts World Movies & TV
After two years of filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole returns to his childhood home in Ireland.
Plus: 50 years later, Gay Talese remembers the late Peter O'Toole.
Gay Talese Esquire Aug 1963 15min Permalink
Iverson, Canseco, TO, and DiMaggio — a collection of picks on post-career woe.
The complicated post-baseball days of Joe DiMaggio.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min
Basketball’s iconoclast is now a broke recluse at 37.
Kent Babb Washington Post Apr 2013 10min
Five years after they leave the league, 60 percent of NBA players have nothing left. In the NFL, it’s closer to 80 percent after just two years. A breakdown of the economics of retirement.
Pablo S. Torre Sports Illustrated Mar 2009 25min
Terrell Owens at 38: unemployed, nearly bankrupt after losing his shirt in a electronic-bingo entertainment complex development plan gone bust, father of four children (one of which he has never met), frequent bowler.
Nancy Hass GQ Jan 2012 15min
Before he was a Twitter savant, Jose Canseco was a juiced-up terror.
Pat Jordan Deadspin Mar 2008 15min
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.
Matt Bai New York Times Apr 2013 20min
The crumbling of an American icon.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Apr 2013 25min
On Stephon Marbury’s (not totally sad!) NBA exile in China.
Wells Tower GQ May 2011 25min
Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra’s on-field brilliance and private-life disasters, from drunk driving to failed investment and publishing ventures.
Jim Baumbach Newsday Dec 2012 15min
A profile of Jordan at 50.
Wright Thompson ESPN Feb 2013
Jul 1966 – Apr 2013 Permalink
In 1967, a 56-year-old lawyer met a young inmate with a brilliant mind and horrifying stories about life inside. Their complicated alliance—and even more complicated romance—would shed light on a nationwide scandal, disrupt a system of abuse and virtual slavery across the state, and change incarceration in Texas forever.
Ethan Watters Texas Monthly Oct 2018 1h10min Permalink
Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Nov 2005 35min Permalink
A diagnosis in question.
James Ross Gardner Seattle Met Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Do jellyfish have minds?
Oliver Sacks New York Review of Books Apr 2014 15min Permalink
On America’s combat canines and their handlers.
Michael Paterniti National Geographic Jun 2014 20min Permalink
From Norwegian waters to European plates.
Franz Lidz Smithsonian Aug 2014 10min Permalink
How a Soviet swimming champion saved passengers from a sinking trolleybus.
Carl Schreck Grantland Sep 2014 20min Permalink
How a surfing writer kidnapped by Somali pirates was freed.
Joshua Hammer Outside Oct 2014 25min Permalink
A spy takes on his own agency.
David Wise Smithsonian Oct 2012 Permalink