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A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.
Dan Kois New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 10min Permalink
The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Janet Reitman Jul 2013 45min
How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.
Richard Ben Cramer Mar 1984 1h
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Mar 1989 50min
How two friends, working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, beat out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score a huge arms contract.
Guy Lawson Mar 2011 45min
How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town who became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
Vanessa Grigoriadis, Mary Cuddehe Aug 2011 25min
Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14 and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.For
David Kushner Dec 2009
Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.
Nathaniel Rich Jun 2011 30min
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Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.
Nitsuh Abebe New York Oct 2012 25min Permalink
After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.
Paul Tullis New York Times Jan 2013 25min Permalink
Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.
Stephen Rodrick New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 25min Permalink
The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.
Matthew Cole, Jeremy Scahill The Intercept Mar 2016 15min Permalink
On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.
Adrian Glick Kudler Curbed Apr 2016 10min Permalink
The fabled venue where the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Prince emerged.
Michaelangelo Matos Pitchfork Mar 2016 Permalink
A veteran with PTSD takes on the fighter jets that fly above his sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula.
Madeline Ostrander Seattle Met Nov 2016 15min Permalink
The world’s richest prisoner interviewed from the Siberian prison colony he calls home.
Neil Buckley, Mikhail Khodorovsky Financial Times Oct 2013 25min Permalink
A profile of computational biologist Eric Schadt, the guy who’s figuring out what comes next after the Human Genome Project.
On internships at Disney World, where “labor is meant to have an almost invisible quality.”
Ross Perlin Guernica May 2011 20min Permalink
A reporter recounts her weekend as an undercover Juggalette.
Emma Carmichael Deadspin Aug 2011 15min Permalink
A blow-by-blow account of Howard Unruh’s slow, deadly walk through Camden, New Jersey – filed an hour before deadline.
On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.
Shelley Murphy The Boston Globe Oct 2011 25min Permalink
How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.
Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2011 15min Permalink
On the increasing tension between the pleasant, thoughtful indie rock of car commercials and those who insist on something weirder.
Nitsuh Abebe Pitchfork Sep 2009 15min Permalink
Kevin Wheatcroft owns the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia. And he’s suddenly eager to show it off.
Alex Preston The Guardian Jun 2015 20min Permalink
Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”
Tony Dokoupil NBC News Feb 2015 10min Permalink
A profile of Jim Henson before the release of the first Muppet movie.
John Culhane New York Times Magazine Jun 1979 20min Permalink
An investigative look at the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Campbell Robertson, Dan Barry, Lizette Alvarez, Serge F. Kovaleski New York Times Apr 2012 20min Permalink
The author muses on the markers we use to identify ourselves and other people – from names to photographs to fingerprints.
Errol Morris New York Times May 2012 1h25min Permalink
On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.
Ginger Thompson New York Times Jun 2012 Permalink
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How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.
Kris Hollington Fortean Times Jul 2008 Permalink
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A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
Lawrence Osborne Harper's Mar 2011 20min Permalink