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In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
John Lee Anderson New Yorker Aug 2016 40min Permalink
Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.
Ruth Graham Slate Sep 2017 15min Permalink
How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Feb 2009 40min Permalink
How the Coast Guard expanded the war on drugs into international waters.
Seth Freed Wessler New York Times Magazine Nov 2017 25min Permalink
A widow and her stepchildren battle Chase and each other.
Joseph Guinto D Magazine Jan 2018 20min Permalink
Three days in the creative wilderness with Francis Farewell Starlite, the reclusive muse to Kanye West, Bon Iver and Drake.
Reggie Ugwu New York Times Mar 2020 10min Permalink
The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.
Laura Secor New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink
While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Peter Brannen The Atlantic Feb 2021 Permalink
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
Chris Heath The Atlantic Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.
Jessica Douglas High Country News Nov 2021 20min Permalink
How a Chicago drug organization did business.
Mick Dumke Chicago Reader Feb 2013 25min Permalink
A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.
Paul Reyes Oxford American Apr 2013 25min Permalink
A couple’s only son is killed in Iraq.
Steve Oney Los Angeles Jun 2007 50min Permalink
A psychological, historical and neurological look at Alcoholics Anonymous.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Jun 2010 20min Permalink
Driving cross-country in a chemical tanker.
John McPhee New Yorker Feb 2003 50min Permalink
An essay on PTSD.
Tom Ricks New Yorker Dec 2014 10min Permalink
How six different people live off six different, and wildly varying, incomes.
Jon Ronson GQ Jul 2012 15min Permalink
A conversation about beauty with an 86-year-old mathematician.
Siobhan Roberts Quanta Mar 2016 15min Permalink
How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.
Joe Eaton Pacific Standard Nov 2017 25min Permalink
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The lonesome death of Arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, inspiration for a the character Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby, alleged fixer of the 1916 World Series, opiate importation pioneer, mobster and Jew.
Nick Tosches Vanity Fair May 2005 40min
When New York was perpetually on fire.
Luc Sante New York Review of Books Nov 2003 15min
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
James Baldwin The Nation Jul 1966
Watching the jazz singer in New York.
Elizabeth Hardwick New York Review of Books Mar 1976 15min
Jacob Riis, writing in 1899, on how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.
Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min
A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.
Jay McInerney New Yorker Nov 1994
Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.
Arthur Miller Holiday Mar 1955 25min
Sep 1899 – May 2005 Permalink
“Offhand, there are maybe three times in my life I can clearly recall laughing at something really terrible. One: when my mother told me my grandfather had a heart attack. Two: when a friend and I were driving to Cape Cod and a huge bird careened into the windshield, instantly bonking itself dead. Three: when my friends tried to keep me from going home from a party because they thought my boyfriend might kill me.”
Julieanne Smolinski New York Jan 2016 10min 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
A profoundly neglected 6-year-old gets a new home.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jul 2008 25min Permalink
The day Hurricane Irene nearly drowned Prattsville, New York.