The Secret History of Page Six

One-time New York Post reporter Kate Storey takes a deep dive into the history of the paper’s powerful gossip column, examining how it’s adapted since its founding in 1977, into the age of social media and #MeToo.

Source: Esquire
Published: Feb 12, 2020
Length: 25 minutes (6,253 words)

Love and Lhotse

James Morrison and Hilaree Nelson were brought together by death and loss but united in love — for each other, for self challenge, and for the mountains — in their attempt to become the first adventurers to summit Lhotse and ski down.

Published: Feb 6, 2020
Length: 20 minutes (5,207 words)

The Fabulist of Auschwitz

“Hundreds of thousands of people were reading about a woman who was supposed to be his stepmother but who bore no resemblance to the woman he knew.”

Published: Feb 12, 2020
Length: 21 minutes (5,396 words)

‘The intelligence coup of the century’

The CIA, in a secret partnership with West Germany, used Crypto AG to sell encryption services to gullible governments and then promptly read all their clandestine communications.

Published: Feb 11, 2020
Length: 35 minutes (8,928 words)

Family Business

What do you do when all you ever really wanted was to be loved by your dad and all he wants is to use you to perpetrate crime? Vincent Moretti got wrapped up in his overbearing father’s penchant for organizing inside-job armoured car heists. When Archie Moretti refused to share the take fairly, Vincent decided he had had enough of the patriarchy.

Published: Jan 28, 2020
Length: 31 minutes (7,873 words)

Money Is an Iron

If you’re not up on your Oscar-nominated films, use A.S. Hamrah’s rundown to cram so you can tell one white nominee from another.

Source: The Baffler
Published: Feb 7, 2020
Length: 29 minutes (7,347 words)

The Danger of Befriending Celebrities

Once upon a time, nightlife journalist Michael Musto didn’t set the strongest boundaries with the boldfaced names he covered.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 7, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,000 words)

The Time I Sabotaged My Editor With Ransomware From the Dark Web

Drake Bennett conducts an experiment to see if any idiot could go on the dark web, purchase ransomware from a hacker, and infect an (un)suspecting victim.

Published: Feb 6, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,795 words)

We Make Homes

The world is stuff and nonsense at best and a violent mess at worst, but we still find homes, and connections, and communities.

Source: Gay Magazine
Published: Feb 6, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,291 words)

The Story of Huey Lewis is Not a Tragedy

Huey Lewis, the polo-shirted, red-suited king of the charts during the last throes of pop monoculture in the 1980s, is struggling with hearing problems as he enters his 70s.

Source: Esquire
Published: Feb 6, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,552 words)