Malls and the Future of American Retail
Malls were supposed to die. Instead they’re just being reimagined (again).
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Malls were supposed to die. Instead they’re just being reimagined (again).
Alexandra Lange Curbed Feb 2018 10min Permalink
How to run a fashion empire.
Molly Young GQ Mar 2018 15min Permalink
Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?
T. M. Luhrmann Harper's May 2018 25min Permalink
What happened at OneTaste?
Ellen Huet Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 20min Permalink
Heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships
Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Nathan Phillips wants to talk about Covington.
Julian Brave NoiseCat The Guardian Feb 2019 20min Permalink
It’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure.
Peter Wilson 1843 Mar 2019 25min Permalink
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs.
Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Apr 2019 40min Permalink
The long fight against racism in romance novels.
Lois Beckett The Guardian Apr 2019 30min Permalink
How an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot.
Rachel Monroe The Guardian Aug 2019 30min Permalink
In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.
Liz Clarke Washington Post Nov 2019 15min Permalink
“It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar.”
Shirin Ghaffary, Jason Del Rey Recode Jun 2020 30min Permalink
On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.
Ben Schwartz Vanity Fair Apr 2016 25min Permalink
A dispatch from the World Clown Association Convention.
Leigh Cowart Buzzfeed Jul 2014 30min Permalink
The episode that changed The Simpsons.
Scare stories on “left-wing illiberalism” display a familiar pattern.
Michael Hobbes Confirm My Choices Oct 2021 20min Permalink
Oskar Groening, an SS officer whose duties included counting confiscated money, describes his time posted to Auschwitz.
Editor’s note: At age 94, Groening was convicted yesterday of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison.
Laurence Rees Politico Jul 2015 25min Permalink
How three generations of a Brazilian family evangelized for and fought over the sport of Gracie jiu-jitsu as it moved from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC.
David Samuels Grantland Aug 2015 1h5min Permalink
How a woman born of wealth and privilege tries to bomb the establishment from which she came and ultimately dies in the process.
This Pulitzer-winning series is reprinted online in full and for the first time by Longform.
Lucinda Franks, Thomas Powers United Press International Sep 1970 55min Permalink
On literary tourism:
Dickens World, in other words, sounded less like a viable business than it did a mockumentary, or a George Saunders short story, or the thought experiment of a radical Marxist seeking to expose the terminal bankruptcy at the heart of consumerism. And yet it was real.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Feb 2012 Permalink
The life and times of two professional muggers in 1970’s lower Manhattan:
Hector and Louise usually work whatever neighborhood they’re living in. They knock over every old man on the block, every young man who follows Louise’s swinging hips and pocketbook, and every young girl attracted by Hector’s olive eyes. They rough up all of them, take whatever money is there, and then move on.
David Freeman New York Feb 1970 15min Permalink
The macabre, ultra-violent plays put on at the Grand Guignol defined an era in Paris, attracting foreign tourists, aristocrats, and celebrities. Goering and Patton saw plays there in the same year. But the carnage of WWII ultimately undermined the shock of Guignol’s brutality, and audiences disappeared.
P.E. Schneider New York Times Magazine Mar 1957 10min Permalink
With The Apprentice, Trump rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of. Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.
Joshua Green Businessweek Jun 2017 20min Permalink
President Trump hailed him as a catalyst of the summit with Kim Jong-Un. But what happened to Warmbier—the American college student who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is even more shocking than anyone knew.
Doug Bock Clark GQ Jul 2018 40min Permalink