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Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.
Charles Pierce, Michael MacCambridge Grantland Apr 2013 30min Permalink
A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.
David Samuels Wired Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Stefan Simchowitz has supported dozens of emerging young artists. Why do so many people hate him?
Christopher Glazek New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 20min Permalink
A visit with Ai Weiwei, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Appelbaum, three people who live in justifiable paranoia of government surveillance.
Kashmir Hill Fusion 20min Permalink
Mary Ellen Johnson, a 48-year-old author, befriends a teenager convicted of murdering his parents.
Alan Prendergast Westword Mar 1998 30min Permalink
A year-long investigation of America’s coroners and medical examiners reveals a deeply flawed, deeply troubling system.
A.C. Thompson, Lowell Bergman, Mosi Secret, Sandra Bartlett ProPublica Feb 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of Republican Eric Cantor: six-term congressman, new House majority leader, highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history.
Allison Hoffman Tablet Feb 2011 Permalink
A profile of Alex Jones, who draws a bigger online audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined.
Alexander Zaitchik Rolling Stone Mar 2011 15min Permalink
Inside “a surreal world of pseudo-scientific methods and jargon, traumatizing psychodramas and nude cuddling with counselors.”
Zoë Schlanger Newsweek Dec 2015 Permalink
A traveler tries to make sense of a beautiful island with a dark past.
Junot Díaz Travel + Leisure Dec 2015 20min Permalink
Twelve new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.
Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze, Rachael Dottle, Gus Wezerek FiveThirtyEight Dec 2017 10min Permalink
A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.
Susan Orlean Outside Dec 1996 25min Permalink
How Evangelicals have claimed Trump as one of their own.
Alex Morris Rolling Stone Dec 2019 25min Permalink
Mountain athletes face death and grief more often than most of us. One therapist thinks he can help.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Feb 2020 20min Permalink
A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
Truman Capote New Yorker Nov 1957 55min Permalink
A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s father against the most powerful man in New Iberia, La.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Feb 2017 30min Permalink
Jimmy Breslin on Joe Namath, Mike Sager on Todd Marinovich, and George Plimpton on himself — a collection of our favorite articles ever written about QBs.
On the desolate career of Todd Marinovich, who was engineered from birth to be an NFL quarterback and ended up a junkie.
Mike Sager Esquire May 2009 40min
A detailed account of Plimpton’s 5-play tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Sep 1964 25min
Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.
Tommy Tomlinson ESPN the Magazine Aug 2014 15min
The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.
Greg Howard Deadspin Feb 2014 40min
A profile of Eli Manning—brother of Peyton, son of Archie, future Super Bowl MVP—published shortly after his first NFL start.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Dec 2004 40min
Catching up with Jake Plummer, who turned down a $5 million contract and left the NFL while still in his prime to concentrate on playing handball.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Feb 2011 30min
A profile of Tim Tebow as he dealt with NFL skeptics on the eve of his final college season.
Jason Fagone GQ Sep 2009 25min
Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”
Jimmy Breslin New York Apr 1969 10min
Sep 1964 – Aug 2014 Permalink
Browsing the stacks with The Washington Post’s Michael Dirda.
John Lingan The Paris Review Nov 2012 Permalink
Using different email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made nearly a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Feb 2001 35min
Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the subprime bubble before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him (a story excerpted from The Big Short).
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Apr 2010 45min
On Jim Clark and the culture of Silicon Valley before the dot-com crash (the story that lead to The New New Thing).
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Oct 1999 35min
Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Oct 2010 45min
The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Mar 2003 35min
Oct 1999 – Oct 2010 Permalink
The people who go missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and the people who attempt to identify their remains.
Maria Sacchetti Boston Globe Jul 2014 25min Permalink
How the feds flipped a corrupt American soccer official named Chuck Blazer and brought down the sport’s governing body.
Shaun Assael, Brett Forrest ESPN the Magazine Feb 2016 20min Permalink
How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2018 1h Permalink
And the Black Lives Matter movement could be the vaccine the country needs
Steven W. Thrasher Slate Jun 2020 20min Permalink
How the fatwa changed his life.
Salman Rushdie New Yorker Sep 2012 50min Permalink
On the gay community’s political progress.
Alex Ross New Yorker Nov 2012 30min Permalink