The Killers of Kiev
If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.
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If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.
Joshua Hammer GQ Mar 2018 Permalink
A 23-year-old living in Chile was suddenly attacked and buried alive by her roommate. She later learned she wasn’t his first – or last – victim.
Francesca Mari Texas Monthly Jun 2015 45min Permalink
How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.
Zachary R. Mider, Zeke Faux Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink
As Friday’s deadline approaches, a federal employee wonders: “How am I supposed to dig out?”
Eli Saslow Washington Post Feb 2019 20min Permalink
Life as a young actor when you’re about to become a movie star.
Alice Gregory GQ Feb 2019 20min Permalink
When authorities fail families, Lissa Yellowbird-Chase steps in.
Jessica Lussenhop BBC, High Country News Mar 2019 25min Permalink
On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.
Jessica Pressler Elle Apr 2019 10min Permalink
A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine May 2019 50min Permalink
A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.
Susan Orlean Outside Dec 1996 25min Permalink
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2015 Permalink
How Evangelicals have claimed Trump as one of their own.
Alex Morris Rolling Stone Dec 2019 25min Permalink
An amateur sleuth tracks runners who cheat. But how far should he go?
Gordy Megroz Wired Feb 2020 15min 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
National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 35min 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 profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.
Michael Sokolove New York Times Magazine Apr 2016 10min Permalink
A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?
Daniel Hernandez Epic May 2020 25min Permalink
How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”
Tim Alberta Politico Nov 2020 30min Permalink
A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.
A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme.
Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 Permalink
America’s most fearless satirist has seen his wildest fictions become reality.
Julian Lucas New Yorker Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Picks on Carlin, Seinfeld, Rivers, Pryor and more.
Why the richest comedian in history keeps working.
Jonah Weiner The New York Times Magazine Dec 2012 15min
A look at the life and career of Richard Pryor as he reached the end.
Hilton Als New Yorker Sep 1999
Carlin on his start, his work, and his addictions.
Sam Merrill Playboy Jan 1982 55min
The rise and fall, and rise and fall, of a legend.
Jonathan Van Meter New York May 2010 25min
Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah The Believer Oct 2013 35min
A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never succeed as a performer, does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Feb 2010 45min
On Sarah Silverman’s stand-up style.
Dana Goodyear New Yorker Oct 2005 20min
A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up.
James Kaplan New Yorker Jan 2004 25min
A profile of the reclusive Garry Shandling.
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2010
She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min
Remembering the unsparing Patrice O’Neal.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc New York May 2012
Outtakes from a Rolling Stone profile.
Jonah Weiner The Writearound Jan 2012 45min
Jan 1982 – Oct 2013 Permalink
“Miles Davis was a deeply competitive artist, and the idea that he was losing audiences to white rock musicians with inferior skills—and, worse, had to open for them at concerts—inspired him to beat them at their own game. But he did so very much on his own terms.”
Adam Shatz NY Review of Books Sep 2016 15min 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
His health failing and his business in tatters, the head of Death Row Records faces murder charges that could put him away for life.
Previously: Does a Sugar Bear Bite? (Lynn Hirschberg • New York Times Magazine • Jan 1996)
Matt Diehl Rolling Stone Jul 2015 20min Permalink