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On playing chess and waiting to get arrested.
David Hill McSweeney's Nov 2011 10min Permalink
Four American rock climbers are kidnapped by guerillas in Kyrgyzstan.
Greg Child Outside Nov 2000 30min Permalink
How Mike Enoch went from progressive to fascist.
Andrew Marantz New Yorker Oct 2017 25min Permalink
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs.
Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Apr 2019 40min Permalink
In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.
Liz Clarke Washington Post Nov 2019 15min Permalink
From his early days in Indiana to his exit interview after 33 years in late night, a David Letterman reading list.</p>
From Muncie to NBC.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Mar 2010 30min
A pre-Late Night profile.
Peter Kaplan Esquire Dec 1981 25min
Recounting an appearance on Letterman.
David Foster Wallace Playboy Jun 1988 30min
Memories of working on the show in the ’90s.
Daniel Kellison Grantland May 2015 25min
The sex scandal.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Apr 2010 30min
An exit interview.
Dave Itzkoff New York Times Apr 2015 15min
Dec 1981 – May 2015 Permalink
The scientists working to free those trapped between life and death.
Roger Highfield Mosaic Apr 2014 35min Permalink
An interview with Joan Didion.
Sheila Heti The Believer Feb 2012 15min Permalink
Sandra Bridewell, a Dallas socialite, and the people around her who keep dying.
Eric Miller, Skip Hollandsworth D Magazine May 1987 45min Permalink
The author examines his terrible football career.
Josh Keefe Slate Aug 2014 15min Permalink
On Bill Cosby’s complicated family life.
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker Sep 2014 25min Permalink
Ben Bradlee’s nagging concerns about Deep Throat.
Jeff Himmelman New York Apr 2012 20min Permalink
Wandering through the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's Mar 2009 Permalink
An investigation into pedestrian deaths on railroad tracks.
Todd C. Frankel The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 2013 30min Permalink
On leaving New York for Portland.
William Deresiewicz The American Scholar Dec 2012 30min Permalink
A take down of the press corps and the modern presidential campaign, published on the eve of the ’88 election.
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Oct 1988 40min
On the press buses, nicknamed Bullshit 1 and Bullshit 2, following John McCain.
David Foster Wallace Rolling Stone Apr 2000 1h35min
Manny Pacquiao, still in his fighting prime, on the campaign trail for a congressional seat in the remote, untamed Southern province of the Philippines that spawned him.
Andrew Marshall The Post Aug 2010 15min
A first-time candidate working out his public identity early in his campaign for the Illinois State Senate.
Hank De Zutter Chicago Reader Dec 1995 15min
The nihilistic confessions of a presidential campaign reporter who covered Giuliani, Huckabee, and Clinton for Newsweek.
Michael Hastings GQ Oct 2008 20min
The strengths and limitations of the Republican frontrunner.
Robert Draper New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 20min
Newt Gingrich’s brief turn at the top in Iowa.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker Jan 2012 15min
Oct 1988 – Jan 2012 Permalink
On Felix Baumgartner and his 24-mile jump.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
The fight to save a “delicious gold mine.”
Oliver Bullough Roads & Kingdoms Jul 2013 Permalink
On the biggest food fraud in U.S. history.
A visit to Star Axis, a desert art installation that connects you to the cosmos.
Ross Andersen Aeon Oct 2013 30min Permalink
On Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s lust for blood-sport.
David Quammen The Atlantic Jul 2003 35min Permalink
What baseball writers did during the steroid era.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Jan 2014 25min Permalink
Has Mexico become a failed state?
David Rieff The New Republic Mar 2011 10min Permalink
How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund.
John Cassidy New Yorker Jul 2011 35min Permalink
How movies, music and literature reproduce the disaster.
Andrew Wilson Smithsonian Mar 2012 4h15min Permalink