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Requiem for a viral hit.
Joshua Davis Wired Dec 2006 15min Permalink
On equating beauty with self-worth.
Lucy Grealy Nerve Oct 1997 10min Permalink
Chess in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler Southwest the Magazine May 2016 15min Permalink
Life on an isolated island utopia.
Emily Eakin VQR Jul 2017 20min Permalink
Imagining the alternative.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Oct 2017 55min Permalink
Why everything is getting louder.
Bianca Bosker The Atlantic Oct 2019 15min Permalink
Oral histories from the California wildfires.
Tessa Love The Believer Jun 2021 20min Permalink
On the Israeli national baseball team.
Charles Bethea Details Mar 2013 Permalink
On Yemen’s uncertain future.
Joshua Hammer National Geographic Sep 2012 15min Permalink
In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.
Michel J. Mooney D Magazine 20min
The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.
Mark Singer New Yorker 40min
The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.
A youth wasted on pro-level Ultimate Frisbee.
In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.
Patrick Symmes Outside 25min
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.
How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.
Ben Paynter Businessweek 10min
Reporting undercover from inside the online-shipping industry.
Mac McCelland Mother Jones 30min
Frank Firetti, a 54-year-old pool salesman in Virginia, and his fading American dream.
Eli Saslow Washington Post 25min
“It’s more than soup.”
Andrea Nguyen Lucky Peach May 2016 10min Permalink
Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.
Lex Boon NRC Handelsblad Oct 2013 Permalink
The emerging political consciousness of Silicon Valley.
George Packer New Yorker May 2013 40min
On recreational genetics and the vulnerability of family secrets.
Virginia Hughes Matter Dec 2013 40min
Inside the real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Ralph Langner Foreign Policy Nov 2013 35min
How the city will drown.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Jun 2013 30min
Boomtown San Francisco, as seen from the “Google Bus.”
Rebecca Solnit London Review of Books Feb 2013 15min
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Traveling with a sex tourist to the Uzbek city of Tashkent.
Srinath Perur Open 55min
Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.
Entering her thirties single and adrift, the writer heads to San Francisco to spend time with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore and attend a gangbang “where all the men were dressed as panda bears.”
Emily Witt n+1 35min
Investigating San Francisco’s OneTaste, which promises personal and professional success through the practice of orgasmic meditation.
Nitasha Tiku Gawker 35min
A visit to Tokyo’s first co-sleeping cafe, where one can pay a set fee to sleep next to a woman in 20 minute increments, though spooning, being patted on the head, and a change of pajamas are extra.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's 10min
How Dan Savage became America’s leading ethicist.
In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country. That equipment—a radio-frequency jammer—was upgraded several times, and eventually robbed the Iraq insurgency of its most potent weapon, the remote-controlled bomb.
Noah Shachtman Wired Jun 2011 25min Permalink
Kidnapping and international adoption.
Erin Siegal McIntyre Guernica Dec 2014 30min Permalink
Remembering Patrice O’Neal.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc New York May 2012 25min Permalink
Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Sep 2008 40min Permalink
Twelve years ago, a Saudi Arabian man, whom federal authorities had long suspected of having ties to terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact. To this day, al-Turki has maintained that he’s innocent and was instead the target of post-9/11 anti-Muslim sentiment.
Chris Outcalt 5280 Aug 2018 25min Permalink
In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond villain, and enjoying a new chapter of his life.
John Gonzalez The Ringer Feb 2019 30min Permalink
In the normal universe, "to be" is annihilated by "not to be." But for reasons that are still a mystery to even the deepest math of physics, a bit of matter in a billion or so is not obliterated, it has no antimatter partner. It becomes a drop of experience.
Charles Mudede The Stranger Sep 2019 15min Permalink
Adventures in bartending.
Elizabeth Gilbert GQ Mar 1997 20min Permalink
A profile of Kermit Oliver, a reclusive, critically acclaimed artist who designs scarves for Hermès and works nights at the Waco post office.
Jason Sheeler Texas Monthly Oct 2012 20min
A profile of the singer as he took to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.
Amy Wallace GQ 30min
A profile of Fiona Apple.
Dan P. Lee New York 30min
The Grateful Dead’s afterlife.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker 50min
Blockbusters in the age of “corporate irony.”
David Denby The New Republic 35min
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