I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes
A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.
A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min Permalink
In California, Jeff Lee is a business school student at Stanford with an almost unhealthy work ethic and a penchant for selfies. In Malaysia, he’s teaching women how to win beauty pageants.
Thomas Pogge is a Yale professor and one of the world’s most prominent ethicists. He also stands accused of sexually harassing his female students.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed May 2016 20min Permalink
A family loses everything in the Fort McMurray wildfire.
Katherine Laidlaw The Walrus May 2016 10min Permalink
“It’s the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy. No time for reflection. No time to contract before another expansion. No time to grow up. No time to fuck up. No time to learn from your mistakes. But that notion goes against nature, which is cyclical.”
George Carlin, Sam Merrill Playboy Jan 1980 55min Permalink
“Two weeks before Christmas, I was explaining to a friend in town that if I seemed more distressed than usual, it was just because I was trying to accustom myself to the fact that my cat didn’t want to be my cat anymore. ‘No way,’ she said. ‘Here’s what you do: You just call Dawn.’ And then she gave me the cat psychic’s phone number.”
Rachel Monroe Hazlitt May 2016 10min Permalink
Best Article Arts Politics Media
A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.
Michael Kelly New York Times Magazine Oct 1993 50min Permalink
Billy Mitchell’s quest for video game perfection.
David Ramsey Oxford American May 2006 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
Best Article Crime History Science
A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.
Lawrence Weschler Harper's Sep 1994 35min Permalink
A journey into the 1950s.
Michael Paterniti GQ Mar 2007 35min Permalink
An interview with the novelist.
Haruki Murakami, John Wray The Paris Review Jun 2004 35min Permalink
On Easter Sunday, 2008, a boat called the Alaskan Ranger went down in the Bering Sea. Forty-seven people were left to fend for themselves in 32-degree water. Forty-two survived.
Sean Flynn GQ Nov 2008 55min Permalink
A profile of Garry Shandling.
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2010 25min Permalink
Sallie Belling was an inspirational figure in her community for having overcome a childhood of abuse, drugs, and prostitution — a childhood her sister Rachel says is pure fiction.
Stephanie Wood The Sydney Morning Herald Feb 2016 15min Permalink
“Twenty-five years ago, I used to live in fear of Trevor Latham kicking my ass nearly every day. I grew up to be a writer. He grew up to run one of the toughest biker gangs in America. And then I tracked him down.”
Alex Abramovich GQ Mar 2007 25min Permalink
If you don’t get sick, was it really a vacation?
Ian Frazier Outside Aug 2006 20min Permalink
The view from a low point.
Kenneth R. Rosen The Big Roundtable Mar 2016 25min Permalink
The unexpected history of a name.
Jody Rosen Slate Mar 2016 15min Permalink
The author ponders the dissolution of his own marriage, and others.
Pat Conroy Atlanta Magazine Nov 1978 15min Permalink
On applying to work as an undercover agent.
Jennifer duBois Lapham's Quarterly Feb 2015 15min Permalink
Collections Business Sex Travel
Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions—a collection of articles on young money.
“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”
Nancy Jo Sales New York Dec 1996 20min
Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks who have barely survived a hellacious childhood.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2013 40min
On the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, who has “probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth.”
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2011 45min
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kim The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min
A profile of Paris Hilton at the height of her fame.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Nov 2003 10min
An invite-only social network for Georgetown assholes.
Angela Valdez Washington City Paper Jul 2007 30min
How two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.
Maureen Tkacik The New York Observer Aug 2010
A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”
Ken Silverstein Foreign Policy Mar 2011 20min
Dec 1996 – Aug 2013 Permalink
The Supreme Court justice on gay rights, the problem with consensus, and the Devil.
Jennifer Senior New York Oct 2013 25min Permalink
Decades after the body of beauty queen Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, there is still only one suspect: John Feit, the priest who heard her final confession.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Apr 2005 30min Permalink
The idea was to shoot a Neiman Marcus fur catalog in the Andes mountains, not get stranded on them.
Mickey Rapkin Elle Feb 2016 Permalink