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On the art of the takedown.
Rob Harvilla The Ringer Jan 2019 20min Permalink
Heather Morris’s bestselling novels ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, and the problem of truth in historical fiction.
Christine Kenneally The Monthly Feb 2020 25min Permalink
On the life and legacy of one of soccer’s legends, who died Wednesday.
Brian Phillips The Ringer Oct 2019 35min Permalink
The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.
Elena Saavedra Buckley Epic Magazine Nov 2021 35min Permalink
We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.
Adam Begley, Don DeLillo The Paris Review Sep 1993 40min Permalink
During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.
Carina del Valle Schorske New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
What the Chinese education system can teach America about relying on test scores as the main metric of success.
Diane Ravitch New York Review of Books Nov 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of Costa Rica’s most famous bull, who is responsible for two riders’ deaths and a brand of craft beer.
Ashley Harrell, Lindsay Fendt SB Nation May 2013 20min Permalink
The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.
David Haglund Slate Nov 2012 35min Permalink
The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.
Greg Sandoval The Verge Sep 2013 15min Permalink
“And yet we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions.”
Mark Danner New York Review of Books Feb 2014 20min Permalink
How the tapping of Angola’s natural resources has kept the country a killing field, and made it one of the world’s most glaringly inefficient kleptocracies.
Scott Johnson Guernica Apr 2011 25min Permalink
How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.
Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2011 15min Permalink
An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.
Chandler Phillips Edmunds Jan 2001 1h45min Permalink
The frustrated – and well-hidden – story of Isabel Myers Briggs, inventor of the famous personality test.
Merve Emre Digg Oct 2015 35min Permalink
The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”
Kyle Swenson New Times Broward-Palm Beach May 2015 20min Permalink
“While its source remains something of a mystery, Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating.”
Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Apr 2011 30min Permalink
The rise and fall of Quayside, a futuristic city concept that Google’s Sidewalk Labs planned to build in neglected part of Toronto.
Brian J. Barth OneZero Aug 2020 Permalink
On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.
Hannah Walhout Catapult Feb 2021 20min Permalink
Memories of a lovely afternoon with a serial killer.
Jay Roberts Orange Coast Sep 2013 15min Permalink
The story of H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer.
John Bartlow Martin Harper's Dec 1943 25min Permalink
The adventures of a pro bono gigolo.
John H. Richardson GQ Jun 2016 20min Permalink
The failed deposal of a university president.
Andrew Rice New York Times Magazine Sep 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of Montana Senator Jon Tester.
Chris Jones Esquire Oct 2012 20min Permalink