The Eminem interview

The greatest rapper on earth gets personal on Proof, guns, Bill O’Reilly and being an artist from Detroit

Published: May 13, 2009
Length: 26 minutes (6,728 words)

Do CEOs Matter?

Steve Jobs, Apple’s ailing CEO, is scheduled to return to work this month after a six-month leave, but investors are feeling skittish.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,640 words)

Ask the pilot

Do you really think I’d lie to you about cabin air? Plus: The Colgan crash and the problems with regional airlines.

Source: Salon
Published: May 15, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,005 words)

George Pelecanos on fathers and sons and ‘The Wire’

Published: May 14, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,691 words)

Hacking Education

The possibility that education can be unbundled, and that, as an information good, it may be possible to radically reduce the cost of providing at least some types of education could have important social consequences.

Published: May 8, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,671 words)

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: Tony Scott Likes It Loud, Fast, and Profane

Why remake a bland but beloved thriller? Because movies should at least try to be as dangerous as life.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,962 words)

Rachel Weisz

Source: Onion A.V. Club
Published: May 14, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,503 words)

Hemingway’s Libidinous Feast

In a restored edition of a great classic, sexual anxiety looms large.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,892 words)

Sex Work

Two new biographies — one of Helen Gurley Brown and the other of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson — offer cautionary tales about mixing sex and the workplace.

Published: May 14, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,727 words)

As Cheney Seizes Spotlight, Many Republicans Wince

His running argument with the Obama administration has spawned a noisy side debate all its own: By leading the criticism, is Cheney doing more harm than good to the causes he has taken up and to the political well-being of his party?

Author: Dan Balz
Source: Washington Post
Published: May 14, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,294 words)