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A profile of Dr. Oz.
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A profile of Dr. Oz.
Michael Specter New Yorker Jan 2013 35min Permalink
A profile of 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.
Jordan Conn ESPN Feb 2013 15min Permalink
America’s devastating treatment of schizophrenia.
Jonathan Cohn Huffington Post Highline Oct 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of André Leon Talley.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Sep 2013 20min Permalink
A collection of articles by and about the Paris Review founder, who died 10 years ago this week.</p>
A visually impaired traveler journeys through the wilds of Zimbabwe and discovers a side of the safari experience that very few know.
Ryan Knighton Afar Jun 2017 15min Permalink
Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Aug 2020 25min Permalink
As the New York head of a celebrity-favorite megachurch, Carl Lentz achieved stardom. But when a cheating scandal blew up the pastor’s life, congregants were left to question their relationship with a church that cultivated its own kind of fame.
Alex French, Dan Adler Vanity Fair Feb 2021 30min Permalink
A lifetime of brutal injuries and misfortune robbed the world-renowned pianist João Carlos Martins of the ability to play his instrument. And then along came an eccentric designer and his bionic gloves.
Gabriella Paiella GQ Oct 2021 20min Permalink
From her early political career to the challenges she's faced in 2016 — a reading list on the Democratic nominee for president.
“Hillary Clinton was never a shy person.”
Connie Bruck New Yorker May 1994 2h10min
Two biographies of Hillary Clinton do not get us any closer to understanding her.
Linda Colley London Review of Books Aug 2007 10min
On Clinton’s Arab Spring.
Jonathan Alter Vanity Fair Jun 2011 30min
GROSS: I am just trying to clarify so I can understand.
CLINTON: No, I don't think you are trying to clarify. I think you're trying to say that, you know, I used to be opposed and now I'm in favor and I did it for political reasons. And that's just flat wrong. So let me just state what I feel like you are implying and repudiate it. I have a strong record. I have a great commitment to this issue and I am proud of what I've done and the progress we're making.
Terry Gross Fresh Air Jun 2014 30min
The drawbacks of being the front-runner.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Nov 2014 25min
There’s nothing simple about this candidacy—or candidate.
Rebecca Traister New York May 2016 35min
May 1994 – May 2016 Permalink
How greed is sucking Texas dry.
Paul Solotaroff Men's Journal Jun 2014 20min Permalink
“We, the writers—a word I am using in its most primitive sense—arrived in Chicago about 10 days before the baffling, bruising, an unbelievable two minutes and six seconds at Comiskey Park. We will get to all that later.”
James Baldwin Nugget Feb 1963 20min Permalink
She was a Canadian student whose travels brought her to the cheap hotel on Skid Row. The only clue in her disappearance was a strange elevator video in which she peeks and then gestures with her hands down an unseen hallway.
In January 1966–the same month In Cold Blood was first published–Truman Capote sat down with George Plimpton to discuss the new art form he liked to call “creative journalism.”
George Plimpton, Truman Capote New York Times Jan 1966 35min Permalink
Satoshi Nakamoto was the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Facing bankruptcy and jail, Craig Wright fled Australia knowing that he would soon be outed as Satoshi by multiple publications. Backed by a business group that hoped to sell his patents, Wright was due to show the proof that he possessed the original keys for Bitcoin, but did he?
Andrew O'Hagan London Review of Books Jun 2016 2h20min Permalink
The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.
On a small section of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil and the American who tried to claim it for himself.
Jack Shenker The Guardian Mar 2016 25min Permalink
An interview with Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone writer Vanessa Grigoriadis on the finer points of celebrity profiling.
Jonah Weiner, Vanessa Grigoriadis The Writearound Sep 2011 10min Permalink
He called himself “TheNoseDoctor” and performed sinus surgeries, many of them unnecessary, at a maniacal clip. When the whole thing fell apart, he left behind his yacht and family, and disappeared into the Alps.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Jan 2011 35min Permalink
On America’s deep and persistent fear of the black penis.
Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Alex Vardakostas has been on a decade-long quest to build a robot that can prepare the perfect cheeseburger. It could also put his family out of work.
Lauren Smiley Wired Jun 2018 15min Permalink
Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders. But the man also known as Sture Bergwall may not have committed any of them.
Elizabeth Day The Observer Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker Oct 2016 30min Permalink
How slot machines snuck into the mall, along with money laundering, bribery, shootouts, and billions in profits.
Felix Gillette Businessweek Apr 2011 Permalink
The author was living in a friend’s basement after a bad breakup, unable to eat. Then he had lunch with Jacques Pépin.
Brett Martin GQ Jul 2015 20min Permalink