My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
The chef/writer behind New York City’s Prune revises her original dreams for the restaurant in the wake of closing because of COVID.
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The chef/writer behind New York City’s Prune revises her original dreams for the restaurant in the wake of closing because of COVID.
Gabrielle Hamilton New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.
Geoff Ziezulewicz Military Times Jun 2020 30min Permalink
For a rebellious, Korean-American teen like myself who was awkwardly trying to situate himself, without much success, Jackson’s writing, with its rap and jazz references and its relentless, engaging voice, provided a vision of Black agency that felt almost illicit.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Review of Books Aug 2020 20min Permalink
It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.
Sirin Kale Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink
Covid-19 has revealed the depths of the nation’s rental housing crisis—but a group of Minneapolis tenants has shown that a different future is possible.
Matthew Desmond The New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 30min Permalink
When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalized capital.
Samanth Subramanian Guardian Mar 2021 Permalink
Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs for coal ash.
Max Blau Georgia Health News, ProPublica Mar 2021 40min Permalink
The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.
Olivia Carville Bloomberg Business Mar 2021 20min Permalink
For decades, thousands of people came to Trinidad, Colorado, to have gender confirmation surgery done by Dr. Stanley Biber. This excerpt from Going To Trinidad tells his—and one of his patient’s—poignant stories.
Martin J. Smith 5280 Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Over the span of four years, federal investigators estimated millions of dollars stolen from Mexican taxpayers passed through one South Texas bank. When they followed the trail, it led to real estate, cars, and airplanes. But in 2018, those investigations suddenly stopped.
Jason Buch Texas Observer May 2021 20min Permalink
“With mood disorders on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions I feel almost every day of my life. Maybe that’s why I can finally tell my story.”
Geoff van Dyke 5280 Nov 2020 15min Permalink
Paul Wulff, a college football coach, was only 12 when his mother vanished from their family home. After 41 years of searching, he finally has been able to piece together some details of a mystery that upended both his life and family.
Kyle Bonagura, Adam Rittenberg ESPN Aug 2021 20min Permalink
Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.
Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise, Grace Ashford New York Times Jun 2021 50min Permalink
In my naive denial, I had wanted to see him as a hapless ne’er-do-well, a nonconformist with a streak of dishonesty. I liked to think of him as a latter-day Robin Hood. Now I knew that wasn’t true.
James Dolan D Magazine Oct 2021 20min Permalink
On the production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who defined the’90s at the box office with films like Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, then struggled amidst Simpson’s hedonistic excess and the failure of Days of Thunder.
Richard Natale The Los Angeles Times Jun 1993 20min Permalink
The author of The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, interviewed by his editor, Andy Ward, about storytelling, literary heroes, and why the book took him 10 years to write.
Michael Paterniti, Andy Ward longform.org Aug 2013 10min Permalink
In 1974, a pair of four-year-old cousins wandered into the jungle near India’s border with Myanmar. The boy was found five days later, temporarily incapable of speech. The girl was gone. For decades, stories echoed through villages of a “wild-looking woman,” sometimes striding beside a tiger. Thirty-eight years later, she returned.
Lhendup G Bhutia Open Aug 2012 10min Permalink
On the Google conundrum:
It’s clearly wrong for all the information in all the world’s books to be in the sole possession of a single company. It’s clearly not ideal that only one company in the world can, with increasing accuracy, translate text between 506 different pairs of languages. On the other hand, if Google doesn’t do these things, who will?
Daniel Soar London Review of Books Oct 2011 15min Permalink
On the nature of violence.
When my brother was twelve, I found six mice nailed to the wall of the abandoned tree house in the woods near our apartment. He spent a lot of time there. It seemed to me the little mouse faces were frozen in agony. As though they’d been alive when he’d hammered the nails through them.
J. Mays The Sun Magazine Aug 2018 10min Permalink
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 Permalink
In the wings of this great drama were the unseen. Hidden in the rainforest where the violence was staged, in the eerie aftermath of the tragedy, were three people whose stories cue political contexts in both the US and Guyana crucial to understanding how and why Jonestown may have happened.
Gaiutra Bahadur New York Review of Books Dec 2018 20min Permalink
Over the last several years, millions of dollars worth of antique rhino horns have been stolen form collections around the world. The only thing more unusual than the crimes is the theory about who is responsible: A handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.
Charles Homans The Atavist Magazine Mar 2014 1h15min Permalink
This guide is sponsored by George Saunders's Tenth of December, the acclaimed short story collection published this year by Random House. A National Book Award Finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review's Top 10 of 2013, Tenth of December has been hailed by critics as "an irresistible mix of humor and humanity," "a visceral and moving act of storytelling," and "a feat of inventiveness."</p>
It's really, really good. Makes for a great gift, too. Buy it today. Should you need further convincing, here is a collection of classic Saunders stories, both fiction and non-fiction, from our archive:</em>
A field study in Fresno.
GQ Sep 2009 50min
A profile of Saunders as Tenth of December was published.
Joel Lovell New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 25min
Saunders discusses his process.
Patrick Dacey BOMB Magazine Jun 2011 15min
Another short story from Tenth of December, one that took Saunders more than a dozen years to complete.
New Yorker Oct 2012 35min
Saunders travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.
GQ Nov 2005 40min
On the virtue of kindness.
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Next is "culture training," in which trainees memorize colloquialisms and state capitals, study clips of Seinfeld and photos of Walmarts, and eat in cafeterias serving paneer burgers and pizza topped with lamb pepperoni. Trainers aim to impart something they call "international culture"—which is, of course, no culture at all, but a garbled hybrid of Indian and Western signifiers designed to be recognizable to everyone and familiar to no one. The result is a comically botched translation—a multibillion dollar game of telephone. "The most marketable skill in India today," the Guardian wrote in 2003, "is the ability to abandon your identity and slip into someone else's."
Andrew Marantz Mother Jones Jul 2011 20min Permalink
On a child diagnosed with autism:
The worst part was that I knew he sensed it, too. In the same way that I know when he wants vegetable puffs or puréed fruit by the subtle pitch of his cries, I could tell that he also perceived the change—and feared it. At night he was terrified to go to bed, needing to hold my fingers with one hand and touch my face with the other in order to get the few hours of sleep he managed. Every morning he was different. Another word was gone, another moment of eye contact was lost. He began to cry in a way that was untranslatable. The wails were not meant as messages to be decoded; they were terrified expressions of being beyond expression itself.
Amy Leal The Chronicle of Higher Education Oct 2011 15min Permalink