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A profile of Jeremy Lin.
Will Leitch GQ Oct 2012 15min Permalink
Tales of teenage romance.
Davy Rothbart California Sunday Nov 2017 10min Permalink
On young love.
A portrait of Harlem.
James Baldwin Esquire Jul 1960 30min Permalink
Don’t read the comments.
Meghan Daum The Believer Jan 2012 20min Permalink
“My stories, my family’s stories, were not stories in India. They were just life.”
Sujatha Gidla Literary Hub Jul 2017 15min Permalink
What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?
Andrea Elliott New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 45min Permalink
Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2014 15min Permalink
As a young community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama concluded that to make a real difference, he needed to gain power. A look at how that plan has worked thus far.
Paul Tough New York Times Magazine Aug 2012 Permalink
Australian Rocky Perone, age 21, made his minor league baseball debut with a stolen base in 1974. Except he wasn’t Australian, wasn’t named Rocky Perone and most definitely wasn’t 21.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Sep 2015 25min Permalink
When its informant’s cover was blown, German intelligence destroyed his files. Did his handlers fail to pick up a violent cell that would eventually murder nine immigrants and a cop in order to preserve their asset?
Hubert Gude Der Spiegel Feb 2014 10min Permalink
How a loving daughter and star student stole barium acetate from her high school chemistry lab, put it in her father’s refried beans, and almost got away with murder.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 1996 25min Permalink
In 2007, NBA ref Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to betting on games he officiated. But it was never proved that he fixed them—until now.
Scott Eden ESPN Feb 2019 50min Permalink
In 1971, an unlikely activist sued to overturn Iowa’s ban on married women and mothers playing school sports. She just wanted to play.
Britni de la Cretaz Longreads Aug 2019 Permalink
The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.
Ed Yong The Atlanic Apr 2020 30min Permalink
How two boys, 10 and 11, were sentenced to years in a detention facility for a crime they didn’t get a chance to commit.
Victoria Beale Buzzfeed Jun 2014 30min Permalink
In 1997, 8-year-old Chaneya Kelly reported that she had been raped by her father, Daryl Kelly, sending him to prison for up to 40 years. Since then, she’s wanted more than anything to take it back.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York Dec 2013 20min Permalink
75 years ago, Marguerite Perey unearthed an element while working as a technician in Marie Curie’s lab. Her achievement came at a great cost.
Veronique Greenwood New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 15min Permalink
As a teenage sales clerk, Monica Prata noticed that men were coming into stores with an interest in women’s clothing and makeup. So she decided to become a “feminine image consultant.”
Alex Morris New York Apr 2015 10min Permalink
At 93, Jimmy Carter still spends most weekends in his hometown, preaching wise and powerful sermons. Sermons that speak to our current national crisis. That make us realize: We need Mr. Jimmy now more than ever.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jun 2018 25min Permalink
His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.
Steve Friedman Runner's World May 2013 30min Permalink
In 2005, Vanessa Mitchell moved into her dream home, a former medieval jail where England’s witches waited to hang and burn. When paranormal phenomena forced her to flee, she became convinced it was possessed by evil spirits.
Jeff Maysh Medium Oct 2020 25min Permalink
Her life in South Korea seemed perfect: new friends, a burgeoning career, reality-TV fame. But she was about to become notorious—disappearing without a trace, only to reappear pledging allegiance to North Korea. What happened to Lim Ji-hyun?
Abigail Haworth Marie Claire Feb 2021 30min Permalink
How a former member of Jesus People USA exposed its history of sexual abuse.
Jesse Hyde Buzzfeed Aug 2015 30min Permalink
Matthew Roberts was a fledgling musician in L.A., DJing at a strip club and prone to nightmares. But when he learned Charles Manson might be his biological father, his whole life suddenly made sense.
Jeff Gordinier Details Mar 2010 Permalink