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The history of civilian internment camps.
Andrea Pitzer Lapham's Quarterly Dec 2014 15min Permalink
Bitcoin partying at an Orlando hotel with worshippers of the blockchain.
Sam Biddle Gawker Dec 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of the designer, who died Sunday at 41.
Doreen St. Félix New Yorker Mar 2019 Permalink
On the importance of skateboarding.
Sean Wilsey London Review of Books Jun 2003 40min Permalink
On losing your father, the Facebook generation, and the Zen of Eminem — browse our full archive of essays and short stories by Zadie Smith.
Sandy Jenkins was a shy, daydreaming accountant at the Texas headquarters of Collin Street Bakery, the world’s most famous fruitcake company. He was tired of feeling invisible, so he started stealing — and got a little carried away.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Dec 2015 30min Permalink
This isn’t truck-on-truck violence. It’s the taxpaying owners of brick-and-mortar restaurants—along with a host of other powerful District players—who are waging the attack.
Tim Carman Washington City Paper Sep 2010 25min Permalink
A visit with John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, which “changed the way at least two generations responded to art,” just before his death.
Kate Kellaway The Guardian Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.
William Turton, Joshua Brustein Bloomberg Businessweek Apr 2021 10min Permalink
The writer of a contentious piece of science fiction, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” drew the internet’s ire. Now she tells her story.
Emily VanDerWerff Vox Jun 2021 25min Permalink
Charlie Warzel is a writer-at-large for The New York Times opinion page.
“I’m relying on my morals more than I normally do, but less on my gut. The stakes are just so high.”
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On collecting books.
I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to live from books. And it was through books that I first realised there were other worlds beyond my own; first imagined what it might be like to be another person; first encountered that deeply intimate bond made when a writer's voice gets inside a reader's head.
Julian Barnes The Guardian Jun 2012 15min Permalink
For a few weeks a few years ago, Jeremy Lin was on top of the basketball world. Now he’s riding the bench, being taunted by Kobe Bryant, and trying to figure out what the hell happened.
Pablo S. Torre ESPN the Magazine Mar 2015 15min Permalink
The Nxivm initiation was supposed to open up a secret sisterhood. After giving up compromising photographs to the recruiter “master,” each woman was expecting a tattoo. Instead they received 2-inch brands that seemed to suggest the initials of the cults founder, Keith Raniere.
Barry Meier New York Times Oct 2017 10min Permalink
An interview with Lawrence Schiller, himself one of the great interviewers of his time, whose research fueled Norman Mailer’s Executioner’s Song.
Lawrence Schiller, Suzanne Snider The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink
A profile of the filmmaker Errol Morris as he prepared to release The Thin Blue Line after a decade of limited distribution, semi-poverty, and a side career as a private detective.
Mark Singer New Yorker Feb 1989 1h10min Permalink
On Michael Lewis and the global financial crisis.
Previously: The Michael Lewis World Tour of Economic Collapse
John Lanchester New York Review of Books Nov 2011 15min Permalink
A melancholic Billy Ray Cyrus on the trauma of being the father of a famous 18-year-old girl, his friendship with Kurt Cobain, and his favorite mullet nicknames (Kentucky Waterfall and Missouri Compromise).
Chris Heath GQ Mar 2011 Permalink
Fourteen people connected to resistance of Vladimir Putin have died on British soil. Every case has been closed, the deaths deemed of natural causes. American intelligence believes they were all assassinated by the Kremlin.
Heidi Blake, Tom Warren, Richard Holmes, Jason Leopold, Jane Bradley, Alex Campbell Buzzfeed Jun 2017 1h Permalink
How modernity – and an eruption of violence – changed “the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard.”
Geoffrey Douglas Yankee Sep 2011 Permalink
A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.
Chris Stokel-Walker Buzzfeed Nov 2012 20min Permalink
Thoughts on the current era of online anonymity.
Tess Lynch The Morning News Mar 2011 Permalink
The disappointing tenure of Uruguay’s great lefty hope.
Eve Fairbanks The New Republic Feb 2015 20min Permalink
On the Final Exit Network, a controversial right-to-die organization, and the death of their client John Celmer.
Charles Bethea Atlanta Magazine Mar 2010 25min Permalink
A profile of thriller writer Harlan Coben and what it takes to succeed as a novelist even when the literary establishment doesn’t acknowledge your existence.
Eric Koningsberg The Atlantic Jul 2007 30min Permalink