Open Hearts
They got heart transplants on the same day. Then they fell in love.
They got heart transplants on the same day. Then they fell in love.
Susan Baer Washingtonian Aug 2018 20min Permalink
In 2010, an art dealer claimed he hid a chest of gold and jewels in the Rockies. At least four people have died looking for it.
David Kushner Wired Jul 2018 25min Permalink
What if your son’s school thinks he might be a potential school shooter?
Bethany Barnes The Oregonian Jun 2018 15min Permalink
“They think of us as pests, so they are trying to drive us out of our homes, for what is the Republican drive for our self-deportation if not a plan of fumigation?”
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Jezebel Jun 2018 10min Permalink
How the 9.9 percent became “the principal accomplices in a process that is slowly strangling the economy, destabilizing American politics, and eroding democracy.”
Matthew Stewart The Atlantic May 2018 1h Permalink
Live from the World Series of Poker.
Colson Whitehead Grantland Jul 2011 1h15min Permalink
A trip to Scotland and an investigation of enduring belief.
“I remember reading about the deathbed confession, and how strangely sad it made me, even though I had not, at that point, believed in the monster for years. How much sadder, I wondered, would it make those who still believed in the existence of a monster in Loch Ness?”
Tom Bissell VQR Aug 2006 35min Permalink
In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?
Paul Berczeller The Guardian Jun 2003 15min Permalink
An interview with Maurice Sendak.
Emma Brockes, Maurice Sendak The Believer Nov 2012 20min Permalink
What should a father teach his sons?
Will Leitch The Cut Mar 2018 10min Permalink
In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.
Rafe Bartholomew Deadspin Jun 2010 15min Permalink
A profile of director Guillermo del Toro.
Daniel Zalewski New Yorker Jan 2011 50min Permalink
Inside the disturbing “cult” of young acolytes that catapulted conductor James Levine’s career.
Malcolm Gay, Kay Lazar Boston Globe Mar 2018 Permalink
A trip to Malheur Refuge.
Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 35min Permalink
On female rage.
Leslie Jamison New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 15min Permalink
Life and debt as a young writer in New York.
Meghan Daum New Yorker Oct 1999 25min Permalink
Best Article Arts Business Media
A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Feb 2004 25min Permalink
Forty-seven years later, two daughters meet.
John Eligon New York Times Dec 2017 10min Permalink
Teaching Emily Dickinson at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida.
William Bowers Oxford American Jan 2003 40min Permalink
The story of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Tom Lamont GQ Nov 2017 30min Permalink
A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.
John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Jun 2011 25min Permalink
One woman’s final days with her family.
Libby Copeland Esquire Nov 2017 20min Permalink
A happy ending, eventually.
C.J. Chivers The New York Times Nov 2017 15min Permalink
On the sanitized wonderland that is Singapore.
William Gibson Wired Sep 1993 20min Permalink
How New York City responds to terrorism.
Zadie Smith NY Review of Books Jun 2017 10min Permalink