The Remaking of Steve Buscemi

“In a rare interview, Hollywood’s most beloved misfit opens up about anxiety, loss, and the hard work of getting through it all.”

Source: GQ
Published: May 26, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,600 words)

The Imperfect Alibi

“The forgotten suspect, the DNA, and the church murders that haunted a detective.”

Published: May 24, 2020
Length: 39 minutes (9,950 words)

Death and Denial in Brazil’s Amazon Capital

“Even if I had stopped it (economy), if I had closed the city for 30 days, no one goes in and no one goes out. At some point I would have had to open and at some point the virus would have gotten here.”

Published: May 26, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,622 words)

Sick Days

“Instacart promises a safer way to shop, but workers tell a different story.”

Source: The Verge
Published: May 26, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,418 words)

The Man in the Iron Lung

“When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted polio and was paralysed for life. Today he is 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. But after surviving one deadly outbreak, he did not expect to find himself threatened by another.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: May 26, 2020
Length: 22 minutes (5,611 words)

Lloyd’s Mattress

Scott Korb contemplates disgust — his own, yours — at the kind of magical thinking that promises (with fingers crossed) to protect us from all the causes of dying.

Author: Scott Korb
Source: Longreads
Published: May 26, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,490 words)

‘The Past Six Weeks Have Been Unlike Anything I’ve Known’: a GP on How the Pandemic Has Changed His Work

Coronavirus has changed every aspect of Gavin Francis’ life at his doctor’s practice in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Source: The Guardian
Published: May 12, 2020
Length: 16 minutes (4,105 words)

A Window Onto an American Nightmare

“As the homelessness crisis and the coronavirus crisis converge, what can we learn from one city’s struggles?”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: May 25, 2020
Length: 37 minutes (9,471 words)

I Was Depressed Before All of This. Now What?

Moving to a small New Mexico town pushed one woman to reconcile with her past, but the isolation she craved made her more vulnerable to the effects of shelter in place.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: May 7, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,571 words)

Bad Bunny in Captivity

What is the chic, Puerto Rican pop star doing in quarantine, and what makes him so irrestisable? (Note: This is the first cover story in Rolling Stone history written by a Latina, and photographed by a Latina.)

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: May 14, 2020
Length: 18 minutes (4,569 words)