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Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.
Thomas Pynchon New York Times Book Review Jun 1993 10min Permalink
A New York lawyer’s attempt to secure an American aid worker’s release from ISIS.
Ali Younes, Shiv Malik, Spencer Ackerman, Mustafa Khalili The Guardian Dec 2014 25min Permalink
What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.
Shahan Mufti Businessweek Dec 2011 20min Permalink
An Iowa dad’s surprisingly short path from commentor to screenwriter.
Jason Fagone Wired Mar 2012 20min Permalink
A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay for it.
Antonia Crane The Rumpus Jun 2012 20min Permalink
“By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …” In a grim finale, the nineties get their Altamont.
Steven Hyden AV Club Feb 2011 15min Permalink
More than 15% of Detroit’s adults have asthma, and 82% of black students go to schools in the most polluted parts of the city.
Zoë Schlanger Newsweek Mar 2016 Permalink
In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.
Nicholas Casey New York Times Nov 2016 15min Permalink
Stephen Reed was “mayor for life” in Harrisburg, PA. Now he’s going to trial on 114 counts of bribery, theft, and fraud.
David Gambacorta The Baffler Dec 2016 20min Permalink
On his twelfth appearance on Letterman, Bill Hicks killed. The network refused to air it.
Mike Sager GQ Sep 1994 30min Permalink
A case of mistaken identity leads to the prosecution of an ordinary Eritrean for human smuggling.
Ben Taub New Yorker Jul 2017 20min Permalink
Thinking about launching your own media startup? You might want to consider my crazy story first.
Jamie O'Grady The Cauldron Jan 2019 25min Permalink
The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.
Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Jul 2019 10min Permalink
On the people who lie about serving in the military and the detectives who try to expose them.
Rachel Monroe New Yorker Oct 2020 20min Permalink
A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.
Erika Hayasaki Wired Feb 2021 Permalink
A story in the student newspaper about a dropout and a few friends who were in California working on something called TheFacebook, which after a year had 1.5 million users.
Kevin J. Feeney Harvard Crimson Feb 2005 20min
One of the first major profiles of Zuckerberg, as Facebook was beginning the transition away from only serving college students and trying to figure out a way to compete with the then-king of social networks, MySpace.
John Cassidy New Yorker May 2006 30min
And the Facebook origin story becomes a point of contention.
Claire Hoffman Rolling Stone Jun 2008 25min
Two unusual themes: Zuckerberg sounding New Agey and Facebook seeming financially vulnerable.
Alex French GQ Dec 2008 15min
A profile of COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jul 2011 35min
Zuckerberg’s letter to new investors this week.
Mark Zuckerberg Jan 2012 10min
Feb 2005 – Jan 2012 Permalink
When Christian music and ’90s mainstream rock collided.
Meghan O'Gieblyn Guernica Jul 2011 20min
A report from America’s biggest Christian music festival.
John Jeremiah Sullivan GQ Feb 2004 45min
A Christian rock star questions his faith.
Jessica Hopper Chicago Reader Jul 2009 10min
Dylan talks faith, music and politics.
Kurt Loder Rolling Stone Jun 1984 10min
A puzzling confession from an unlikely band.
Jon Ronson Guardian Oct 2010 10min
Jun 1984 – Jul 2011 Permalink
The author takes time off from teaching to aid her autistic son.
Amy Leal Chronicle of Higher Education Dec 2012 10min
A young girl cares for her mother after a stroke.
Samantha Irby Rumpus Jun 2012 15min
How old is too old to get pregnant?
Lisa Miller New York Sep 2011 25min
On the complicated process of surrogacy and the many definitions of “mother.”
Melanie Thernstrom New York Times Magazine Dec 2010 1h45min
To some people’s ire, pregnant women are exercising more personal judgment about alcohol consumption.
Alyssa Giacobbe Boston Magazine Dec 2012 15min
The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.
Jessica Francis Kane Morning News Jul 2012 10min
Dec 2010 – Dec 2012 Permalink
The undoing of Tina Brown.
Luke O'Brien Politico Magazine May 2014 30min Permalink
In defense of fiction.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Oct 2019 25min Permalink
The dark world of online murder markets.
Brian Merchant Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink

They “speak” through their feet, some can even draw, and at least one has been hung for murder. A collection of picks about pachyderms.

Nina Simone, a child of Scientology, and a murderous college student—a collection of articles based on private journals.</p>

Carlin, Seinfeld, Rivers, Chappelle, a young Woody Allen and more—a collection of articles about stand-up comedians.</p>

Argo, The Insider, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dog Day Afternoon—a collection of great articles that became (mostly) great movies.</p>