Sweatpants in Paradise
The immersive mise en scène of a 2010 Hollister flagship store, redolent of California beach towns that don’t exist, “lazy, hygienic sexuality,” and weed.
The immersive mise en scène of a 2010 Hollister flagship store, redolent of California beach towns that don’t exist, “lazy, hygienic sexuality,” and weed.
Molly Young The Believer Sep 2010 10min Permalink
On loving and hating and living in Manhattan.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Oct 2014 10min Permalink
A trip to India for total silence.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal Aug 2012 20min Permalink
Sex in the Olympic Village.
Sam Alipour ESPN Jul 2012 15min Permalink
A season with the New England Patriots’ 37-year-old quarterback.
Mark Leibovich New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 30min Permalink
The Estonia was carrying 989 passengers when it sank in 30-foot seas on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. More than 850 lost their lives. The ones who survived acted quickly and remained calm.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic May 2004 35min Permalink
The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.
David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min Permalink
After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious.
Tom Lamont Guardian Mar 2020 30min Permalink
On theme parks in America.
Hal Sundt The Ringer Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Jan 2011 25min Permalink
For months, Emile Weaver denied her pregnancy. A gruesome discovery forced her to confront the truth.
Alex Ronan Elle Jan 2020 40min Permalink
I sometimes miss believing, and look toward the days when I was satisfied by testimony—by the feeling that there were encounters everywhere, all seeming to attest to some great mystery.
Renée Branum Guernica Dec 2019 20min Permalink
An essay on insomnia.
Elizabeth Gumport This Recording Dec 2010 10min Permalink
Uncovering evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents.
Ann Choi, Bill Dedman, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow Newsday Nov 2019 40min Permalink
How to tell a genderqueer story.
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Harper's Nov 2019 25min Permalink
The author’s then-six-year-old ended up with the original artwork for one of the cards in Magic’s Alpha series—but he’s not selling, so don’t even ask.
Ben Marks Collector's Weekly Nov 2019 20min Permalink
How he made big and early bets on new technologies—and won.
Michal Lev-Ram Fortune Jan 2015 20min Permalink
The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.
Clio Chang California Sunday Oct 2019 10min Permalink
On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.
Susan Orlean Outside Sep 1998 20min Permalink
The country was captivated by the Balloon Boy. But what really happened?
Robert Sanchez 5280 Oct 2019 25min Permalink
The extraordinary “rescue” of a fallen California firefighter.
Lizzie Johnson San Franciso Chronicle Sep 2019 30min Permalink
In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.
An argument for trying.
Cord Jefferson The Awl Dec 2012 10min Permalink
Two ships, a supercharged hurricane, and one Coast Guard helicopter.
Tristram Korten GQ Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Can tearing down I-81 fix the sins of the past?
Aaron Gordon Jalopnik Jul 2019 30min Permalink