May 2013
64 posts
Rajat Gupta’s Lust for Zeros →
How the former CEO of McKinsey, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history, got played.
Anita Raghavan | New York Times Magazine | May 2013
First Australians →
An Aboriginal community’s attempt to maintain a 50,000-year-old way of life.
Michael Finkel | National Geographic | May 2013
Crack Rock City →
Wandering a Detroit reduced to “crackhouses and churches” with “outlaw biker Jesus” Pastor Steve.
Mark Binelli | The Morning News | May 2013
Revenge, Ego and the Corruption of Wikipedia →
The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.
Andrew Leonard | Salon | May 2013
Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman →
William S. Burroughs interviews David Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust mythology.
William S. Burroughs | Rolling Stone | Feb 1974
Drinking And Driving And Dying →
The persistent, tragic behavior of professional athletes.
Thomas Lake | Sports Illustrated | May 2013
A Convenient Excuse →
On the media’s failure to cover climate change.
Wen Stephenson | Boston Phoenix | Nov 2012
Caterpillar's Doug Oberhelman: Manufacturing's... →
Caterpillar’s CEO made $22 million last year. Some of his employees are on food stamps.
Mina Kimes | Businessweek | May 2013
Why Basketball Won’t Leave Phil Jackson Alone →
How the legendary coach copes with retirement.
Sam Anderson | New York Times Magazine | May 2013
The Heartbreaking Case of Zhu Ling →
How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”
Kevin Morris | The Daily Dot | May 2013
The Legend of Malacrianza →
A profile of Costa Rica’s most famous bull, who is responsible for two riders’ deaths and a brand of craft beer.
Ashley Harrell | SB Nation | May 2013
Greetings from Gun Valley →
Inside New England’s thriving arms industry.
Neil Swidey | The Boston Globe | Apr 2013
Dirty Medicine →
An investigation into widespread criminal fraud at a generic drug company.
Katherine Eban | Fortune | May 2013
The Animal Mind Reader →
On the biology of animal emotion.
Eric Sorensen | Washington State Magazine | Jun 2013
Drugstore Cowboy →
The con man who cost Google $500 million.
Jake Pearson | Wired | May 2013
Some of My Best Friends Are Germs →
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
Michael Pollan | New York Times Magazine | May 2013
Only Mr. God Knows Why →
The meaning of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Anthony Lane | New Yorker | Jun 2010
Welcome to the Programmable World →
In the not-so-distant future, all of our objects will talk to each other. They’ll make our coffee, find our keys, save our lives. The roadmap to a fully networked existence.
Bill Wasik | Wired | May 2013
The Shooting Star and The Model →
Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case.
Mark Seal | Vanity Fair | May 2013
How the Trailer Park Could Save Us All →
Rethinking mobile homes as senior housing.
Lisa Margonelli | Pacific Standard | Apr 2013
Please Snort Me: An Oral History of Brooklyn's... →
The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.
Vice Staff | Vice | May 2013
'I Love Getting Into as Much Weird Shit as... →
An interview with Stevie Wonder.
Ben Fong Torres | Rolling Stone | Apr 1973
Bret, Unbroken →
His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.
Steve Friedman | Runner’s World | May 2013
Hollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the... →
“The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage.”
Michael Nordine | Los Angeles Review of Books | May 2013
Laptop U →
The possibilities and pitfalls of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Nathan Heller | New Yorker | May 2013
A Mother's Story: The Moon to His Sun →
A daughter’s attempt to solve the riddle of her mom.
Marjorie Williams | Washington Post | Nov 2013
Review of 50 Brooklyn Murder Cases Ordered →
During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.
N.R. Kleinfield | New York Times | May 2013
A Pilot's Son, Flying Solo →
A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.
Stephen Rodrick | Men’s Journal | May 2013
The Depositor Haircut →
In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.
James Meek | London Review of Books | May 2013
Subu Must Die →
How Georgia halted its drug epidemic, but not its addicts–and what the U.S. might learn from their efforts.
Graeme Wood | The New Republic | May 2013
A House Divided →
Why the integration of a South African university didn’t last.
Eve Fairbanks | Moment | Jun 2013
Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live... →
The story behind the spectacle.
Jessica Testa | Buzzfeed | May 2013
Over the Line →
An investigation into shootings by U.S. Border Agents that have killed six Mexicans on Mexican soil over the past five years.
John Carlos Frey | Washington Monthly | May 2013
Dead Man's Float →
He was a hedge-funder with a coke problem. She liked to drink and was thrice-divorced before the got married. When the police arrived, she was clutching his dead body in the shallow end of their pool. She would soon be accused of murder—not by the cops, but her Internet psychic.
Stephen Rodrick | New York | Feb 2008
Thin Mountain Air →
How pitching phenom Steve Carlton became a yoga-loving conspiracy theorist who calls a concrete bunker his home.
Pat Jordan | Philadelphia Magazine | Apr 1994
Miami Cold Case Murder Solved With Recovered... →
Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother’s killer.
Michael E. Miller | The Miami New Times | May 2013
The Missionary Movement to 'Save' Black Babies →
How a network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers turned the complex reality behind black abortion rates into a single, fictional story.
Akiba Solomon | Color Lines | May 2013
James Is a Girl →
The strange life of a 15-year-old girl model.
Jennifer Egan | New York Times Magazine | Feb 1996
The Adventures of Super Boy →
An early profile of Justin Beiber.
Vanessa Grigoriadis | Rolling Stone | Mar 2011
Who Would Kill a Monk Seal? →
An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.
Jon Mooallem | New York Times Magazine | May 2013
Is She For Real? →
On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.
Jon Ronson | The Guardian | Oct 2007
Lip Shtick →
Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.
Pamela Colloff | Texas Monthly | Sep 2003
Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship →
The filmmaker on his relationship with former Manson Family member, currently serving a life sentence for murder. An excerpt from Role Models.
John Waters | Huffington Post | Aug 2009
Love and Madness in the Jungle →
A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their...
My Father, the Nazi →
Horst von Wächter confronts - and rationalizes - a difficult family legacy.
Philippe Sands | The Financial Times | May 2013
What Do You Desire? →
The writer, entering her thirties single and adrift, heads to San Francisco to spend time with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore and attend a gangbang “where all the men were dressed as panda bears.”
Emily Witt | N+1 | May 2013
The Thin Red Line →
Inside the White House debate over Syria.
Dexter Filkins | New Yorker | May 2013
The Luckiest Village in the World →
In 2011, just before Christmas, a tiny Spanish town won 120 million Euros in the lottery. A trip to the new Sodeto.
Michael Paterniti | GQ | May 2013
Al Gore’s Golden Years →
A profile of the almost-president.
Steve Fishman | New York | May 2013
Taken for a Ride: Temp Agencies and Raiteros in... →
How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.
Michael Grabell | ProPubica | Apr 2013
