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Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 Permalink
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To honor this week's release—you can pick up your copy on Amazon—here's a collection of great soccer writing from our archive.</i>
A profile of Messi.
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated May 2010
Pelé as religous experience.
Brian Phillips Run of Play Sep 2010 15min
Why Neymar, one of the world’s best talents hasn’t taken the money and run.
Sam Borden New York Times Jul 2012 10min
The glory days of the New York Cosmos.
David Hirshey ESPN Jun 2006 15min
Sixty years ago, the U.S. upset England in the World Cup on a goal from Joe Gaetjens. In most countries he would have been idolized. Instead, he was ignored in America and marked for death in his native Haiti.
Alexander Wolff Sports Illustrated Mar 2010 25min
Jun 2006 – Jul 2012 Permalink
A collection of picks on Montreal's plow racket, what it’s like to freeze to death, the wilds of eastern Siberia and more.
Collusion, sabotage, violence—inside Montreal’s no-holds-barred snow removal racket.
Selena Ross Maisonneuve Apr 2012 20min
First chill, then stupor, then letting go.
Peter Stark Outside Jan 1997 15min
In 1912, 300 miles deep on a trek into the uncharted Antarctic wilderness, Douglas Mawson lost most of his crew and supplies. This is the story of how he got back.
David Roberts National Geographic Jan 2013 10min
A dispatch from eastern Siberia, a realm of steel-shattering cold and nullifying vastness sometimes called “the white hell.”
Jeffrey Tayler The Atlantic Apr 1997 20min
In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried by a fictional character in the film Fargo?
Paul Berczeller The Guardian Jun 2003 10min
How the ski town of the super-rich responds to global warming.
Nathaniel Rich Men's Journal Feb 2014 30min
The avalanche at Tunnel Creek.
John Branch New York Times Dec 2012 10min
A trip to the Iditarod.
Brian Phillips Grantland Apr 2013 20min
Jan 1997 – Feb 2014 Permalink
Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.
Mary Wiltenburg CS Monitor Jul 2009 10min Permalink
As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Tyler Tynes The Ringer Jun 2020 10min Permalink
At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.
Brian Barrett Wired Jun 2020 30min Permalink
Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.
Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Oct 2020 30min Permalink
A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves.
Bertrand Cooper Current Affairs Jul 2021 Permalink
At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.
Becca Andrews Mother Jones Sep 2021 35min Permalink
Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country.
Anand Gopal Harper's Aug 2012 20min Permalink
After being diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer at age 43, Williams resolves to make the most of her “bonus time” with her young children between visits to specialists.
Marjorie Williams Vanity Fair Oct 2005 45min
The weeks following a near-death experience.
John Jeremiah Sullivan Oxford American Jan 1999 15min
On terminal inmates and those trying to save them.
Kurt Streeter Los Angeles Times Nov 2011 10min
On identifying the man who encouraged strangers to kill themselves over the Internet.
Nadya Labi GQ Oct 2010 25min
A step-by-step account.
Peter Stark Outside Jan 1997 15min
On a mother’s decision to donate her daughter’s organs.
Jan 1997 – Nov 2011 Permalink
Detailing the rise and fall of the most prolific star in the history of porn, Sager’s 12,500-worder helped inspire Boogie Nights.
Mike Sager Rolling Stone May 1989
A self-published snapshot of the industry following the Great Recession.
Susannah Breslin They Shoot Stars Oct 2009 45min
The former entertainment editor at Hustler describes the psychological impact of his half-decade as a porn reviewer.
Evan Wright LA Weekly Apr 2000 40min
The story of an appearance by porn star Sasha Grey—referred to here as “Tasha”—on The Tyra Banks Show.
An essay on what Internet porn has done to American sexuality.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper The Atlantic Jan 2011 15min
May 1989 – Jan 2011 Permalink
As the war begins to end, Iraqis confront a broken country.
Anthony Shadid Washington Post Jan 2009
As U.S. troops departed, Baghdad in ruins.
Anthony Shadid Washington Post Jul 2009 10min
Inside the safe houses where Syrian youth protesters have retreated since the uprising.
Anthony Shadid New York Times Magazine Aug 2011 20min
An account of captivity.
Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks New York Times Mar 2011 45min
An interview with Shadid.
Terry McDermott, Anthony Shadid Columbia Journalism Review Nov 2011 10min
Jan 2009 – Nov 2011 Permalink
On his enduring relevance.
Zadie Smith New York Times Magazine Sep 2012
A scholarly look at the 2004 hit.
Caleb Mason St. Louis University School of Law Jul 2012 40min
A transcript of an interview timed to the release of Jay-Z’s book, Decoded.
Terry Gross Fresh Air Nov 2010 35min
An early profile.
Dream Hampton Vibe Dec 1998
David Johnson’s unrequited correspondence with Jay-Z.
John Herrman Buzzfeed Jul 2012 10min
Dec 1998 – Sep 2012 Permalink
On the psychological considerations behind breast augmentation.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Jan 2002 20min
During World War I, surgeon Harold Gillies and sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd created masks for disfigured soldiers. Gillies’ work, especially, served as the basis for modern surgical techniques.
Caroline Alexander Smithsonian Feb 2007 1h
A profile of the controversial “Dr. Schnoz,” author of My Beautiful Mommy, a children’s book about plastic surgery, and the doctor behind “Operation Chuppah,” which gave Orthodox Jewish women free nose jobs to attract husbands.
Michael E. Miller Miami New Times Jun 2012 20min
After learning that his twin girls will be born with cleft palates, Chernoff and his wife begin the long process of preparing for corrective surgery.
Allen Chernoff New York Jan 2004
Plastic surgery on the parts most people don’t see.
Melanie Berliet Atlantic Apr 2012
Jan 2002 – Jun 2012 Permalink
A profile of Zendaya.
Hunter Harris GQ Jan 2021 20min Permalink
A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never make it as a performer and then does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.
Kliph Nesteroff WMFU Blog Feb 2010 45min
Allen, a huge basketball fan, wrote this profile of his favorite player.
Woody Allen Sport Nov 1977 15min
Didion on what she calls Allen’s “serious” movies.
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Oct 1979
Allen, in his own words, on his work.
Michiko Kakutani Paris Review Sep 1995 25min
A sympathetic profile, written as Allen hit 70.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Dec 2005 30min
Lessons learned from the complete Allen catalog, save Midnight in Paris.
Juliet Lapidos Slate Mar 2011 10min
Nov 1977 – Mar 2011 Permalink
The angry last days of Ty Cobb.
On Azealia Banks.
Rachel Syme Billboard Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Pacquiao and his entourage.
Pablo Torre ESPN the Magazine May 2015 25min Permalink
An essay on audiobooks.
Maggie Gram n+1 Feb 2012 10min Permalink
After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.
Michael E. Miller Washington Post Jul 2015 15min Permalink
Ozel Clifford Brazil was a respected clergyman who helped thousands of African-American teens go to college. He broke the law to do it.
Robyn Price Pierre The Atlantic Dec 2014 30min Permalink
Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.
Ava Kofman, Daniel Golden ProPublica Sep 2019 20min Permalink
One Marine battalion has had four members kill themselves in just the last year. The soldiers have jury-rigged a system of Facebook notifications and Google spreadsheets to try to stop it.
Dave Philipps New York Times Sep 2015 25min Permalink