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Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.
Steven W. Thrasher The Guardian Apr 2016 15min Permalink
There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.
Sam Knight The Guardian Apr 2016 35min Permalink
What it’s like to have thousands of fans who don’t recognize you.
Brandon R. Reynolds Los Angeles May 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Ken Griffey, Jr., six years after he last played a baseball game.
Ben Reiter Sports Illustrated Jun 2016 25min Permalink
“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”
Alec MacGillis The Atlantic Aug 2016 20min Permalink
In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.
Siddhartha Mukherjee New Yorker Aug 2016 20min Permalink
How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.
Brett Popplewell The Walrus Aug 2016 30min Permalink
The greatest stand-up of his generation is also his own worst enemy.
Geoff Edgers Washington Post Aug 2016 15min Permalink
Balancing the creation of a house with living in it as a home.
Rachel Cusk New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 15min Permalink
Three of our favorite articles on the latest Nobel Prize winner.
A profile of a young Dylan and the early ’60s folk scene.
Nat Hentoff New Yorker Oct 1964 30min
”I don’t want anybody to be hung-up … especially over me, or anything I do.”
Jann Wenner Rolling Stone Nov 1969 1h
The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.
Sean Wilentz Oxford American Jan 2007 25min
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The dream of getting from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes has run into a few speed bumps.
Benjamin Wallace New York Oct 2016 20min Permalink
The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.
William Friedkin Vanity Fair Oct 2016 20min Permalink
The untold story of Napoleon Hill, who practically invented the self-help scam through his 1937 book Think and Grow Rich.
Matt Novak Gizmodo Dec 2016 1h20min Permalink
How the refugee crisis has made a lot of people very, very rich.
Malia Politzer, Emily Kassie Huffington Post Dec 2016 Permalink
Somewhere in the desert, buried under a mountain of sand and rock, is an ancient shipwreck. Maybe.
Alexander Nazaryan Newsweek Feb 2016 20min Permalink
How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Feb 2017 25min Permalink
What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Apr 2017 30min Permalink
Sixteen months ago, Otto Warmbier, a junior at the University of Virginia, was arrested in Pyongyang. He’s still there.
Nash Jenkins Time Apr 2017 20min Permalink
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus performs the last shows of its 146 year run.
Jessica Lussenhop BBC May 2017 20min Permalink
On the life at sea of Henk De Velde, who has circumnavigated the globe six times.
Ryan Bradley Virginia Quarterly Review May 2017 15min Permalink
Boko Haram has abducted thousands of children and trained them as soldiers. Four survivors tell their story.
Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 40min Permalink
As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.
James Vlahos Wired Jul 2017 30min Permalink
The Department of Energy is in chaos and it is putting the world at risk.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Jul 2017 40min Permalink
Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.
Corey Pein The Baffler Sep 2017 30min Permalink
Retracing the steps of the most devastating wildfire in California history.