Friend of the Devil
The writer reconnects with an old acquaintance who ten years earlier committed one of the most notorious crimes in New York history.
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The writer reconnects with an old acquaintance who ten years earlier committed one of the most notorious crimes in New York history.
Aaron Gell Medium Nov 2015 1h40min Permalink
On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.
Ed Caesar New York Times Magazine Nov 2013 20min Permalink
The social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen.
Alex Morris New York Jan 2006 20min Permalink
The story of Southern Flight 242.
Eddie Burkhalter The Anniston Star May 2012 20min Permalink
The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.
Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Sep 1997 40min Permalink
An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.
Lev Grossman The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink
On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.
Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min Permalink
The juvenile ward on Rikers Island is a world of constant violence fueled by gangs and, allegedly, encouraged and overseen by the guards.
Geoffrey Gray New York Jan 2011 Permalink
In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.
Ira Boudway, Max Chafkin Businessweek Mar 2017 30min Permalink
A first-hand account of San Francisco in the hours and days after the devastating 1906 earthquake.
Jack London Collier's May 1906 10min Permalink
How to create a floating city.
Oliver Franklin-Wallis Wired (UK) Apr 2018 15min Permalink
Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.
Shaun Raviv The Big Roundtable Mar 2015 1h20min Permalink
How an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.
Declan Walsh New York Times Oct 2018 25min Permalink
The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.
Chris Harland-Dunaway The Verge Sep 2020 Permalink
The last men who ride the rails, “where silence and lawlessness still reign.”
Aaron Lake Smith Vice Oct 2012 30min Permalink
An interview with the late writer.
Jerome Brooks The Paris Review Dec 1994 30min Permalink
What the popular game says about our subconscious.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie Smithsonian Oct 2013 1h30min Permalink
How the 130-year-old game company bounced back with the Switch.
Felix Gillette Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 15min Permalink
An interview with the writer and Nobel laureate.
Elissa Schappell The Paris Review Sep 1993 30min Permalink
A life lived at 7’7”.
Sandy Allen Buzzfeed Jul 2014 20min Permalink
An essay drawn from the introduction of Davidson’s iconic book Subway, first published in 1986:
To prepare myself for the subway, I started a crash diet, a military fitness exercise program, and early every morning I jogged in the park. I knew I would need to train like an athlete to be physically able to carry my heavy camera equipment around in the subway for hours every day. Also, I thought that if anything was going to happen to me down there I wanted to be in good shape, or at least to believe that I was. Each morning I carefully packed my cameras, lenses, strobe light, filters, and accessories in a small, canvas camera bag. In my green safari jacket with its large pockets, I placed my police and subway passes, a few rolls of film, a subway map, a notebook, and a small, white, gold-trimmed wedding album containing pictures of people I’d already photographed in the subway. In my pants pocket I carried quarters for the people in the subway asking for money, change for the phone, and several tokens. I also carried a key case with additional identification and a few dollars tucked inside, a whistle, and a small Swiss Army knife that gave me a little added confidence. I had a clean handkerchief and a few Band-Aids in case I found myself bleeding.
Bruce Davidson New York Review of Books Dec 2011 10min Permalink
We aspire to a life without discomfort, without unpleasantness. But what kind of life would that be? It is as hard to imagine a world without pain as a person without sadness: a whole dimension of existence would be missing.
Sophie Elmhirst 1843 Oct 2019 20min Permalink
A father, his dying son, and the quest to make the most profound video game ever.
Jason Tanz Wired Jan 2016 10min Permalink
A reporter who investigated Scientology tracks down the man who once ran the church’s intelligence operations – and who may hold the secret to years of harassment (and the mysterious death of a pet dog).
Joel Sappell Los Angeles Dec 2012 30min Permalink
The swinging life and boozy death of the original ladies man, and the story of “the coroner that tampered with his cold, lifeless venereal warts.”
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Mar 2011 10min Permalink