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The backstory of the publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan logs.
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The backstory of the publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan logs.
A 2000 speech on the impossibility of all forms of exile, particularly literary.
Roberto Bolaño The Nation Jan 2011 10min Permalink
A takedown of the Last of the Mohicans author.
Mark Twain North American Review Jan 1895 20min Permalink
Generations of the writer’s family experience the “romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes” of San Francisco.
Nathan Heller New Yorker Aug 2018 20min Permalink
The shooting of a civilian exposes the underbelly of a small town police department.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Oct 2018 Permalink
Ginger Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at ProPublica. Her most recent article is "How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico."
“How many times have I written the phrase ‘a town that was controlled by drug traffickers?' I had no idea what that really meant. What does it mean to live in a town that’s controlled by drug traffickers? And how does it get that way? One of the things I was hoping that we could do by having the people who actually lived through that explain it to us was that—to bring you close to that and say, ‘No, here’s what that means.’”
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The rise and fall of Bernard von NotHaus, the creator of the most successful (and some say illegal) alternative currency in the U.S.
Daniel S. Comiskey Indianapolis Monthly Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The comeback of Marty Reisman, the most flamboyant figure in the history of table tennis, and the self-proclaimed greatest hardbat player ever.
Howard Jacobson Table Tennis News Jan 1999 25min Permalink
On the illusion of the inevitable and the revolutions that ended the Eastern Bloc.
Timothy Garton Ash New York Review of Books Nov 2009 20min Permalink
The author unearths the story of Frank Yerby, one of the the most prolific African-American novelists in history.
KaToya Ellis Fleming Oxford American Mar 2020 35min Permalink
The Facebook COO on her generation’s failures and the continuing gender gap in American business and politics.
Today, we turn to you. You are the promise for a more equal world. You are our hope. I truly believe that only when we get real equality in our governments, in our businesses, in our companies and our universities, will we start to solve this generation’s central moral problem, which is gender equality.
Sheryl Sandberg Barnard College May 2011 10min Permalink
Profiles of the true believers.
Deanna Pan The Inlander Sep 2014 15min Permalink
The rebirth of the World Trade Center.
Rex Sorgatz Medium Sep 2014 Permalink
On the importance of the human microbiome.
Michael Specter New Yorker Oct 2012 25min Permalink
The story of a face transplant.
Katie Drummond The Verge Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The scientific pursuit of the afterlife.
Jesse Bering Aeon Nov 2013 15min Permalink
Mini-Currys and the future of basketball.
Danny Chau The Ringer Jun 2016 15min Permalink
Caity Weaver is a staff writer at GQ.
“I always try to remember: you don’t have to tell people what you’re not good at. You don’t have to remind them of what you’re not doing well or what your weak points are. Don’t apologize for things immediately. Always give a little less information than they need. Don’t overshare.”
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Sheelah Kolhatkar is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.
“Suddenly the financial crisis happened and all this stuff that had been hidden from view came out into the open. It was like, ‘Oh, this was actually all kind of a big façade.’ And there was all this fraud and stealing and manipulation and corruption, and all these other things going on underneath the whole shiny rock star surface. And that really also demonstrated to people how connected business stories, or anything to do with money, are to everything else going on. I mean, really almost everything that happens in our world, if you trace it back to its source, it’s money at the root of it.”
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Mar 2017 Permalink
“Let me state, in all frankness, that I have never harbored personal doubts or a lack of confidence. That may be good or it may be bad. But if you see your actions as objectively correct, then not having doubts is good. I must admit that pride may have influenced my attitudes from time to time. But once I came to a conclusion as to what was right, I had great personal confidence in those ideas.”
Jeffrey M. Elliot, Mervyn M. Dymally Playboy Aug 1985 1h Permalink
The director of Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours on his aversion to America, the advantages of small budgets, and the challenges of directing the opening ceremony for the London Olympics.
Danny Boyle, Tim Adams The Guardian Dec 2010 Permalink
"And far from the ivory towers of music academia, mostly on his blog, Elgar’s Enigma Theme Unmasked, Bob Padgett has emerged as perhaps the most prolific and dogged of all Enigma seekers. His solution, which has caught the attention of classical music scholars, lies at the bottom of a rabbit hole of anagrams, cryptography, the poet Longfellow, the composer Mendelssohn, the Shroud of Turin, and Jesus, all of which he believes he found hiding in plain sight in the music".
Daniel Estrin New Republic Feb 2017 15min Permalink
A profile of the California governor.
James Fallows The Atlantic May 2013 30min Permalink
The state of the American cockfight.
Deborah Kennedy Salon Jan 2012 15min Permalink
Investigating the world of “belly torture.”
Laura Yan The Outline Mar 2017 Permalink