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What happened to the Afghan timber worker after a 2005 battle was made into a book and feature film.
R.M. Schneiderman Newsweek May 2016 Permalink
Thanks to a single court case, the state of Maryland is releasing almost 150 violent offenders who believed they would spend their life behind bars.
Jason Fagone Huffington Post May 2016 30min Permalink
What started as a DVD-mailing service has changed the way we watch TV. Now Netflix has to do it again. (And again. And again.)
Joe Nocera New York Times Magazine Jun 2016 20min Permalink
The Libyan Investment Authority was brand new, staffed by people who barely understood finance and had billions to invest. Goldman Sachs saw a whale. Now the Libyans want their money back.
Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel Bloomberg Business Sep 2016 20min Permalink
When a husband and wife killed 14 at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, they also orphaned their 6-month-old daughter. This is her life — and the life of the aunt and uncle who want to adopt her — a year later.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2016 Permalink
A profile of the Atlanta star and creator, who also released a hit album in 2016 and is set to star in the next Star Wars.
Allison Samuels Wired Jan 2017 10min Permalink
The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”
Bob Hohler Boston Globe Aug 2013 10min Permalink
How Michael Manos, a.k.a. the Glam Scammer, a career con man who relied on a combination of fake reality TV shows and fake fundraisers to bilk people in Atlanta, Dallas, and D.C., finally got caught.
Claire Galofaro, Chad Calder The New Orleans Advocate Oct 2013 10min Permalink
How doctors tried, and failed, to save President Kennedy.
Jimmy Breslin New York Herald Tribune Nov 1963 10min Permalink
Eleven members of an Australian rugby club traveled to Bali. After a bomb went off at a nightclub, only five of them made it home.
Michael Paterniti GQ Oct 2004 35min Permalink
Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.
Jessica Pressler New York Jan 2014 10min Permalink
An extended conversation on the problem of whether to “drop out or take over” conducted on Alan Watts’ houseboat, the S.S. Vallejo.
Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg San Francisco Oracle Feb 1967 20min Permalink
How Brad Katsuyama, a trader at the sleepy Royal Bank of Canada, discovered that the stock market was rigged and assembled a team to change it.
Adapted from Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Mar 2014 45min Permalink
A profile of the filmmaker Errol Morris as he prepared to release The Thin Blue Line after a decade of limited distribution, semi-poverty, and a side career as a private detective.
Mark Singer New Yorker Feb 1989 1h10min Permalink
"I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human, you must both 'keep up' with the internet and pursue more serious, analog interests."
An essay on technology’s reach into daily life.
Alice Gregory n+1 Nov 2010 10min Permalink
The author attends a Tolstoy conference as a grad student. She wears flip-flops, sweatpants and a flannel shirt, and tries to determine if Tolstoy was murdered.
Elif Batuman Harper's Feb 2009 Permalink
How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed the author’s law partner when he tried to expose them.
Jamison Firestone Foreign Policy Apr 2011 10min Permalink
On returning to Lagos after years abroad.
It is always understood when you leave Nigeria as a Nigerian that you will return at some point.
Saratu Abiola This Recording Jun 2011 10min Permalink
In pre-modern poetry, Shakespeare, who mentioned everything, would probably have name checked products if he could, but there were few goods with the maker’s name on them: though he would specify the street or town which had given origin to a certain cut of sleeve.
Clive James Poetry May 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of Vogue Creative Director André Leon Talley.
From our guide to haute couture genius at Slate.
Hilton Als New Yorker Nov 1994 20min Permalink
HEMINGWAY: You go to the races? PLIMPTON: Yes, occasionally. HEMINGWAY: Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction.
Ernest Hemingway, George Plimpton The Paris Review Apr 1958 35min Permalink
One student’s struggle, and the lawsuit that could put an end to a controversial “neutrality policy” in the Minnesota school district.
Jessica Lussenhop City Pages Sep 2011 10min Permalink
The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.
Shiv Malik, Ali Younes, Spencer Ackerman, Mustafa Khalili The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink
How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.
Kurt Eichenwald Newsweek Jun 2015 Permalink
On the magic of mother’s milk, which changes daily to meet the baby’s needs and can even start fighting an infection before anyone knows the kid is sick.
Angela Garbes The Stranger Aug 2015 10min Permalink