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Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist'

Gary Hume in his studio in east London: 'You wouldn't want to be here when I'm working.' Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer The basement floor of Gary Hume's expansive east London studio is a…
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2969 words)

Who Shot Valerie Finley?

Rodney Stanberry with his son Trevon, shortly before Rodney was sent to prison. / Courtesy of Denise Stanberry The call came into the Prichard Police Department at 11:20 on Monday morning. It was…
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10092 words)

Richard Engel Reveals a Diary of His Syrian Kidnapping—and How His Captors Terrorized Their Victims

NBC News’s Richard Engel was dispatched to cover Syria’s civil war last December when he lived every war correspondent’s nightmare: he and his crew were dragged from their car at…
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1586 words)

There Was No Couch: On Mental Illness and Creativity

The psychiatrist held the door open for me and my first thought as I entered the room was “Where is the couch?”. Instead of the expected leather couch, I saw a patient lying down on a…
AUTHOR:Sisyphos
PUBLISHED: March 9, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3266 words)

Before Greed

John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1915. American liberals of the Gilded Age were suspicious of vast corporate wealth, which they saw as a major cause of poverty. / Library of…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3033 words)

Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph

Making connections: inside one of Google’s data centres, the Dalles, Oregon. Photograph: Google/Rex Features Thinking about Google over the last week, I have fallen into the typically procrastinatory…
AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: Jan. 19, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4192 words)

On Indian TV, ‘I Do’ Means to Honor and Obey the Mother-in-Law

The Bhats, of Mumbai, watch soap operas together. MUMBAI, India — Mothers-in-law are not a joke on Indian TV.
PUBLISHED: Dec. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2303 words)

Science Journalism and the Inner Swine Dog

A search of the PubMed database, which indexes scholarly biomedical articles, reveals that 997,508 articles were published in the year 2011, which amounts to roughly 2,700 articles per day. Since the…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2340 words)

What Can You Really Know?

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt Liveright, 307 pp., $27.95                            …
PUBLISHED: Nov. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3434 words)
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