Lula's Brazil
A 12,000-word profile of recently departed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva, the “most successful politician of his time.”
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A 12,000-word profile of recently departed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva, the “most successful politician of his time.”
Perry Anderson London Review of Books Mar 2011 50min Permalink
Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly May 2011 30min Permalink
An interview with Heart guitarist and film composer Nancy Wilson.
Maura Kelly, Nancy Wilson The Believer Aug 2007 25min Permalink
How automated ‘execution algorithms’ are taking the world’s markets on a wild ride that few economists can even understand, much less control.
Donald MacKenzie London Review of Books May 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of the hard-living, cop-dodging artist Dash Snow, published two years before his death of an overdose.
Ariel Levy New York Jan 2007 30min Permalink
An essay on poetry and madness.
People still think of poets as an odd bunch, as you’ll know if you’ve been introduced as one at a wedding. Some poets spotlight this conception by saying otherworldly things, playing up afflictions and dramas, and otherwise hinting that they might be visionaries. In the past few centuries, of course, the standard picture of psychopathology has changed a great deal. But as it’s often invoked, the idea of the mad poet preserves, in fossil form, a stubbornly outdated and incomplete image of madness. Modern psychiatry and neuroscience have supplanted this image almost everywhere else.
Joshua Mehigan Poetry Jul 2011 20min Permalink
What it means to become a superpower while three quarters of the population lives on less than fifty cents per day—four scenes from India in transition.
Siddhartha Deb Guernica Sep 2011 25min Permalink
A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."
The making and near unmaking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film.
Alex French, Howie Kahn Grantland Dec 2014 1h Permalink
A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.
Marc Parry The Chronicle of Higher Education Dec 2014 15min Permalink
The theme-park chain where kids learn to pilot a plane, pay taxes, and pretend to be adults.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Seth Rogen, Amy Pascal, and the inside story of Sony’s hacking saga.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Feb 2015 30min Permalink
Truancy is punishable by fines, probation, and in some cases throwing parents in prison. Does any of that really keep kids in school?
Dana Goldstein The Marshall Project Mar 2015 15min Permalink
Many people hoped that this would be the second book she’d publish.
Casey Cep New Yorker Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Notes from a never-finished biography of the neurologist, humanist and writer.
Lawrence Weschler Vanity Fair Apr 2015 30min Permalink
The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.
On stolen bicycles, “a solvent in America’s underground economy, a currency in the world of drug addicts and petty thieves.”
Patrick Symmes Outside Jan 2012 25min Permalink
How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.
Charles Duhigg, Keith Bradsher New York Times Jan 2012 20min Permalink
After two people are found dead in Yellowstone National Park, a team of investigators tracks down the unlikely culprit: a grizzly bear.
Jessica Grose Slate Apr 2012 40min Permalink
On fashion, gender, a finding oneself in a pair of drop-crotch pants.
E. Alex Jung The Morning News Apr 2012 25min Permalink
On Marilyn Monroe and the pains of post-war America.
Jacqueline Rose London Review of Books Apr 2012 40min Permalink
George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2012 35min Permalink
A year with Major Steve Beck as he takes on the most difficult duty of his career: casualty notification.
Jim Sheeler Rocky Mountain News Nov 2005 50min Permalink
“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.
Drew Magary GQ May 2012 15min Permalink
A profile of the Hollywood star-maker behind Vanna White, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.
John H. Richardson Esquire Aug 1999 30min Permalink