The Great Chinese Art Heist
Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
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Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
Alex W. Palmer GQ Aug 2018 20min Permalink
On the parallel sadness of Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop.
Colm Tóibín The Guardian Apr 2015 10min Permalink
The case of the murdered real-estate legend and her enraged assistant.
Robert Kolker New York Nov 2007 20min Permalink
A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.
Phil Klay The American Scholar Dec 2017 20min Permalink
The story of the most secret underground society in Paris.
Sean Michaels Brick Magazine Jul 2010 Permalink
An investigation into the mass graves in Texas that contain the remains of migrants.
John Carlos Frey Texas Observer Jul 2015 25min Permalink
On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”
Zadie Smith The Guardian Sep 2004 10min Permalink
“What I do is not magical realism. I do realistic magic. Look, whenever someone does something new, people have to compare it with things they already know. So even if you innovate, you end up being connected to the past. When I began making movies people linked me to Fellini or Buñuel. Now new filmmakers are called ‘jodorowskian.’”
Ilan Stevens, Alejandro Jodorowsky Literary Hub May 2015 20min Permalink
On “soldiers for credibility” and the tug of war over truth.
James Pogue Oxford American Aug 2012 Permalink
The tragic life of 70s-era supermodel Gia Carangi.
On Gia’s early years as a bisexual “Bowie kid” in working class Philadelphia.
On Gia’s heroin addiction and death from AIDS at age 26.
Stephen Fried Philadelphia Magazine Nov 1988 1h15min Permalink
The life and sudden death of NASCAR’s Dick Trickle.
Jeremy Markovich SB Nation Jul 2013 30min Permalink
On the life, legacy, and last days of Muammar Qaddafi.
John Lee Anderson New Yorker Oct 2011 40min Permalink
The evolution of currency as “a complete abstraction.”
James Surowiecki IEEE Spectrum Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The art and science (or lack thereof) of water dowsing.
Lois Parshley Aeon Oct 2015 15min Permalink
In the middle of a new drought, looking back at a drowned California town.
Lauren Markham Guernica Oct 2015 15min Permalink
The stolen youth of Lorenzo Montoya.
Alan Prendergast Westword Jul 2016 30min Permalink
An oral history of Nirvana ‘Unplugged.’
Alan Siegel The Ringer Nov 2018 35min Permalink
Countries that the NSA has defined as close friends, or “2nd party,” include the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. These countries, documents indicate, cannot targetted. “3rd Party” nations, like Germany, are offered no such protection and spying all the way up to the office of the Chancellor is suspected.
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid, Holger Stark, Jonathan Stock Der Spiegel English Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The odyssey of Kim Jong-il’s personal chef.
Adam Johnson GQ Jul 2013 35min Permalink
High school debate and the demise of public speech.
Ben Lerner Harper's Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The life and last days of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Sean Flynn GQ Nov 2012 20min Permalink
A few days in the life of Miley Cyrus.
Josh Eells Rolling Stone Sep 2013 25min Permalink
An essay on gynobibliophobia and the critical reception of women writers.
Francine Prose Harper's Jun 1998 Permalink
The origins of Lagunitas are laced with THC.
Rise of the wonk.
Alec MacGillis New Republic Sep 2012 15min Permalink