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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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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.
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.
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.
Young Blood
Exploring the possibility that injecting the old with the blood of the young can reverse the aging process.
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A bankrupt music promoter wanted a payday. His detoxing son needed a fresh start. But when their plan for an epic Nas concert in Angola went awry, they found themselves trapped thousands of miles from home.
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Spectacle
On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.
Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.
“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so interesting to me, to work on a novel and to spend so much time trying to get down on the page what it feels like to be a human being who's alive. … I think the effort itself is what human relationships are.”
Jungleland
The changing landscape of the Lower Ninth Ward in post-Katrina New Orleans:
There have been sightings of armadillos, coyotes, owls, hawks, falcons and even a four-foot alligator, drinking from a leaky fire hydrant. Rats have been less of a problem lately because of the stray cats and the birds of prey. But it’s not just animals that emerge from the weeds.
Confidence Game
The limited vision of the news gurus.
Trapped
The story of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Imagining a Better Boyhood
On the confines of masculinity.
Leave No Trace
On the lost-children stories of Australia.
Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Rules Do Not Apply.
“I don’t believe in ‘would this’ and ‘would that.’ There’s no ‘everything happens for a reason.’ Everything happens, and then you just fucking deal. I mean we could play that game with everything, but time only moves in one direction. That’s a bad game. You shouldn’t play that game—you’ll break your own heart.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. He served as guest editor for the September issue of Vanity Fair, titled "The Great Fire."
“There’s this pressure to say something. Say something. The world’s burning, say something. But I try to stay where I’ve been or where I’ve tried to be in my career. ... Good things take time. You gotta let things cook. You can’t insta-bake something like this.”
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Wanted: Macho Men with Mustaches
On the origins of The Village People.
How It Happened
On the genesis of the It Gets Better Project.
Inside Al Jazeera
The year of the revolution, from behind the camera.
