What It Means to Be Displaced
A conversation between the writers Nadifa Mohamed, who left Hargeisa, and Aleksandar Hemon, who left Bosnia.
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A conversation between the writers Nadifa Mohamed, who left Hargeisa, and Aleksandar Hemon, who left Bosnia.
Nadifa Mohamed, Aleksandar Hemon Lithub Jul 2019 Permalink
When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.
Lauren Smiley The Atlantic Nov 2019 35min Permalink
For decades, one company has ruled the world of tampons. But a new wave of brands has emerged, selling themselves as more ethical, more feminist and more ecological.
Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Feb 2020 25min Permalink
After 17 years, the author of the trilogy “His Dark Materials” carries on the story of one of literature’s most indelible heroines.
Sophie Elmhirst New York Times Magazine Oct 2017 10min Permalink
Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.
Darren Loucaides Wired Nov 2020 40min Permalink
All over the West, a housing crisis is causing workforce shortages, crippling local businesses, and threatening the culture and existence of mountain towns as we know them. But amid the doom and gloom, some people are fighting for solutions.
Gloria Liu Outside Nov 2021 25min Permalink
Two American backpackers, two Indonesian villagers, one small boat, 15 slices of bread, a dozen hard-boiled eggs, ten oranges, five apples, two pineapples, two bags of cookies, two packages of peanuts, eight liters of water, one machete and three weeks adrift at sea.
Paul Ciotti The Los Angeles Times Feb 1986 20min Permalink
By day, Dan Brown runs the seafood counter at SuperFresh. By night, he does his life work: clearing, dressing, and sharing road-killed deer.
Hank Stuever Washington Post Dec 1999 10min Permalink
“This is a story about the most magical, mystical sport on earth, and the Detroit lifer who improbably became its king. Also, it’s about an art heist.”
Chris Koentges ESPN the Magazine Jun 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of jailed trader Tom Hayes, who was either behind the Libor scandal or became its fall guy.
Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2015 35min Permalink
A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.
Joshua Green Businessweek Oct 2015 25min Permalink
“Fiction writers are good people, usually. There’s a lot of pretenders, but I haven’t met a lot of sons of bitches.”
Barry Hannah, Wells Tower The Believer Oct 2010 15min Permalink
When Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Barkley, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the future President of the United States crossed paths at a celebrity golf tournament.
Ben Schreckinger GQ Mar 2018 Permalink
An undercover federal agent behind a massive sting operation that took down dozens of gun-runners and drug-dealers tells all.
Mike Kessler, Frank Dalesio Medium Oct 2018 25min Permalink
What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.
Nellie Bowles New York Times Aug 2020 10min Permalink
A wife’s notes on her husband’s last months.
Marion Coutts The Guardian Jun 2014 15min Permalink
The story of Jim Olson and his Tumor Paint dream.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Jun 2014 15min Permalink
Bruce Cawsey Waite has no home, no office, and wears a dead man’s suit.
Lisa Taddeo The New York Observer Oct 2012 Permalink
Our favorite stories about hitting the road.
How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled journey.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Jul 2012 20min
On the road with John Coster-Mullen, a truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.
David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min
A wandering summer road trip.
Annie Proulx Outside May 2004 30min
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed, and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
Joe Hagan Men's Journal Feb 2013 25min
The Great Railway Bazaar author drives across the country.
Paul Theroux Smithsonian Sep 2009
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Hunter S. Thompson Rolling Stone Nov 1971 1h35min
On his last night, Williams lay dying in the back of a blue Cadillac, with 17-year-old Charles Carr at the wheel.
Peter Cooper The Tennessean Jan 2003 15min
A cross-country drive with the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Paul Slansky Playboy Mar 1983
Nov 1971 – Feb 2013 Permalink
Corruption, venality, and tragedy: a collection of picks on what lies beneath the glitter.
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Rolling Stone May 1989 50min
Somehow, River Phoenix’s reluctance to be a star only made him more famous. When he died outside an LA club in 1993, it only cemented his troubled legend.
Tad Friend Esquire Mar 1994 25min
He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.
Grover Lewis LA Weekly Jun 1993 40min
Bonnie Lee Bakley always wanted to marry a celebrity. The one she chose was Robert Blake, a troubled and only intermittently famous man who would end up accused of her murder.
David Grann The New Republic Aug 2001 20min
Peter Bart was once a movie executive like everyone else, but as the head of Variety, the industry’s powerful source of news,
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min
How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jul 2006 35min
He was just another coked-up agent (representing the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.
Evan Wright Vanity Fair Mar 2007 1h35min
Two years ago, the fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. His friends worry that he’s being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion, or something even worse.
Andy Martino New York Daily News Mar 2016 20min
May 1989 – Mar 2016 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
A profile of John Alan Schwartz, creator of one of the most notorious movies ever made.
Brian Hickey Deadspin Feb 2012 10min Permalink
Adam Wheeler lied on his college application. Lawrence Summers facilitated the destruction of the global economy.
Only one of these Harvard men was given jail time.
Jim Newell The Baffler Jul 2012 15min Permalink
Long before he lied about taking steroids and was indicted for perjury, Clemens was just a good ol’ boy from Texas with a world-class workout regimen.
Pat Jordan New York Times Magazine May 2001 15min Permalink
The trouble with the all-but-obligatory networking site, “an Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder.”
Ann Friedman The Baffler Sep 2013 15min Permalink