Nick Nolte: Malibu’s Mad Scientist
How the actor ended up with a house full of tourniquets and syringes, an unflinching belief in the restorative powers of “ozone,” and the brain scan of someone who has “experienced the equivalent of blunt trauma.”
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Aftermath
The end of a marriage.
Heroin/e
Remembering the loss of a parent and the birth of an addiction.
Infectious: Tom Dooley
On the 1866 murder of Laura Foster and the subsequent hanging of Tom Dula.
Rescuing Wonderful Shivery Tales
Creating – and revising – the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Nathaniel Rich writes for Rolling Stone, Harper's and the New York Times Magazine. His latest novel is Odds Against Tomorrow.
"I'm drawn to obsession. I think I'm an obsessive in a way, probably most writers are. It's an obsessive act to sit at a desk by yourself."
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Listening to Beck
A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”
Does a Sugar Bear Bite?
A profile of Suge Knight, 29 and the C.E.O. of Death Row Records, before the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.
Jackie's Goodbye
The cost of Alzheimer’s.
Held Back
On the public schools of Detroit.
White Utopia
The racist foundation of Oregon.
10 Timeframes
On the shifting nature of time.
Bad News
Selling the story of disinformation.
Jihadists in Paradise
A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.
Casey Newton writes the Platformer newsletter. Kevin Roose is a technology columnist for The New York Times. Together they co-host the podcast Hard Fork.
CN: “People actually like to be a little bit confused. They like listening to things where people are talking about things they don’t quite understand, which was very counterintuitive to me. I think a lot of editor-types would scoff at, but I’ve come around.”KR: “We can revisit subjects and we do. We can change our minds. Print pieces feel so permanent, they feel so definitive. Podcasts, we can just sort of say, ‘I don't know what to make of this, ask me again in a month.’”
I, Turbo
On spending six months on the southern coast of Argentina with the “Jane Goodall of penguins” and several hundred of her research subjects.
Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity
On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”
Cat and Mouse
With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.
Why Go Out?
On attempting to quit people and stay home.
Why go out? Because if what we want more than anything is to attain self-confidence, health, energy, and peace of mind, we should stay in. We could be like little Buddhas, meditating and masturbating and watching TV. And we could imagine ourselves to be brilliant, and kind, and good lecturers, and good listeners, and utterly loving – and there’d be no way to prove it otherwise.
Leon Neyfakh is a writer and the host of Slow Burn.
“We didn’t want to be coy about why we were doing the show. We wanted to be up front. We’re interested in this era because it seems like the last time in our nation’s history where things were this wild and the news was this rapid fire and the outcome was this uncertain. That was the main parallel we were thinking about when we started. It was only when we started learning the story and identified the turning points we kept running into these obvious parallels. We mostly didn’t lean into them. We didn’t chase them. There wasn’t a quota of parallels per episode.”
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How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels
The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.
Deep Intellect
The soul of an octopus.
Reincarnation in Exile
The challenges of growing up in the modern world as the reincarnation of a famous Tibetan lama.
Sorority Row
On the enduring political influence and entrenched racism of the Greek system at the University of Alabama.
Typewriter Man
The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.
