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The Big One?

We are at a mysterious fork in the road. One path leads to years, perhaps decades, of spread of a new type of influenza, occasionally making people sick and killing about 18 percent of them. It's not…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (760 words)

The Body in Room 348

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8119 words)
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Growing Up In The World's Deadliest City

Image by Dominic Bracco II/PrimeJumping the Camino Real, near the border of El Paso, Texas. The interior of the school bus is awash in blue light, lumberin
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4850 words)

Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9048 words)

LRB · Hilary Mantel · Royal Bodies

Last summer at the festival in Hay-on-Wye, I was asked to name a famous person and choose a book to give them. I hate the leaden repetitiveness of these little quizzes: who would be the guests at…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5609 words)

The Self in Self-Help

In The Age of Anxiety, W.H. Auden observed that we human beings never become something without pretending to be it first. The corollary is more prosaic but, regrettably, at least as true: We humans…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 6, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (812 words)

Top Science Longreads of 2012 – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

Ignore the tedious pundits bloviating about shrunken attention spans. There has never been a better time to immerse yourself in long, deep, rich science reporting. Here’s a list of my 12 top…
AUTHOR:Ed Yong
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1434 words)

A Sorry State: Pop Marketing & Rihanna's Unapologetic

A week ago, I sat in a tiny red room, around a tiny table, to listen to a record. I wasn't alone. Will Hodgkinson from The Times, The Independent's Andy Gill, and The Mirror's Priya Élan were…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2605 words)

The Swingers’ Guide To Islam

On a hill in the centre of Java, thousands of Muslims regularly turn up to a religious ritual with a surprising stipulation: to seek their fortunes, they abandon spouses, find strangers, and have sex…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3420 words)
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