When No Gender Fits: A Quest to Be Seen as Just a Person
“Kelsey’s gender identity is ‘non-binary.’ Or, ‘agender.’ It’s what Kelsey feels comfortable with, even though the world keeps insisting, in a million little ways, that Kelsey has to choose.”
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“Kelsey’s gender identity is ‘non-binary.’ Or, ‘agender.’ It’s what Kelsey feels comfortable with, even though the world keeps insisting, in a million little ways, that Kelsey has to choose.”
Monica Hesse Washington Post Sep 2014 20min Permalink
“I want to tell a different story, the more common yet strangely hidden one, which is that I don’t feel guilty and tortured about my abortion. Or rather, my abortions. There, I said it.”
Laurie Abraham Elle Nov 2014 Permalink
In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.
Matt Sandy Al Jazeera Oct 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Published originally in GQ Russia.
Michael Idov The New Republic Sep 2012 20min Permalink
On Luddites, “bands of men, organized, masked, anonymous, whose object was to destroy machinery used mostly in the textile industry,” and their literary spawn.
“We can conclude at least two things with certainty about the tenants of One Hyde Park: they are extremely wealthy, and most of them don’t want you to know who they are and how they got their money.”
Nicholas Shaxson Vanity Fair Mar 2013 25min Permalink
The controversial history of WI-38, a cell strain created from an aborted fetus “that has arguably helped to save more lives than any other created by researchers.”
Meredith Wadman Nature Jun 2013 20min Permalink
How Harper Lee was duped into signing away the rights to To Kill a Mockingbird, which still sells 750,000 copies per year, and how she’s fighting to get them back.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2013 30min Permalink
The former Van Halen front man has actually made more money from booze and food than from music.
Rebecca Flint Marx San Francisco Magazine Jul 2015 15min Permalink
A small-town coffeeshop owner led a double life as a blogger and podcaster on the topic of “pickup artistry.” Then his identity, and his intimate writings about his experiences with 46 local women, was made public.
Rachel Monroe New York Jan 2016 20min Permalink

From the campaign trail to California, Martha Stewart to John Wayne — our favorite essays and profiles by Joan Didion.
During his nearly six years in the Air Force, Airman First Class Brandon Bryant flew hundreds of missions and logged almost 6,000 hours of flight time. He killed or helped kill 1,626 people. And he never left Nevada.
Matthew Power GQ Oct 2013 25min Permalink
A woman is killed. Her husband is accused. A famous/infamous medical examiner investigates.
What’s going on here isn’t just science. It’s something deeper, something stranger, something at the same time both terrifying and fascinating.
Dan P. Lee Philadelphia Magazine Oct 2006 25min Permalink
“It is a story that seems almost impossible to believe: a group of female convicts, few of whom had ever played a musical instrument or taken voice lessons, forming a country and western band and becoming, at least in Texas, the Dixie Chicks of their day.”
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 2003 35min Permalink
"I don't know if I was as angry as much as I was misunderstood. A lot of the things we did contained a lot of humor that went over people's heads."
Andrew Nosnitsky Pitchfork Jan 2012 10min Permalink
After robbing two video stores with a friend, Rene Lima-Marin was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. Then, due to a clerical error, he was released 88 years too early.
Robert Kolker The Marshall Project, Matter Apr 2015 20min Permalink
Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.
An inside look at how an ad agency sells a car in 2015.
Jessica Pressler New York May 2015 20min Permalink
Members of the multiplicity community say they are many different people–sometimes so many they think of themselves as a city–all existing within one body.
Tori Telfer Vice May 2015 15min Permalink
The author wanted to give up her day job but keep her lifestyle. So she turned to Seeking Arrangement, a site that pairs rich, older men interested in “companionship” with 20-somethings interested in “gifts.”
Melanie Berliet Vanity Fair May 2010 10min Permalink
After his wife disappears, Hans Reiser’s defense contacts a Wired writer who they believe can help explain the world of groundbreaking code, video games, and sci-fi that defines Reiser’s existence.
Joshua Davis Wired Jun 2007 20min Permalink
A visit to Tokyo’s first co-sleeping cafe, where one can pay a set fee to sleep next to a woman in 20 minute increments, though spooning, being patted on the head, and a change of pajamas are extra.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's Aug 2013 10min Permalink
“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”
Nancy Jo Sales New York Dec 1996 20min Permalink
White women between 25 and 55 have been dying at accelerating rates over the past decade. Anna Marrie Jones was one.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Thirteen years ago, Chris Velten disappeared while retracing the travels of explorer Mungo Park in Africa. He hadn’t been heard from at all — until he sent a friend request.
Jamie Maddison Love Nature May 2016 20min Permalink