Prince’s Closest Friends Share Their Best Prince Stories

An oral history of Prince’s life and career, as told by his friends.

Source: GQ
Published: Dec 8, 2016
Length: 60 minutes (15,000 words)

‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’

Photojournalist Daniel Berehulak documents the killings of dozens of people as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines. (Warning: graphic images of violence.)

Published: Dec 8, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2,500 words)

“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack

How Inception changed the way we listen to movies.

Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 8, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,902 words)

The Last Unknown Man

In 2004, a Burger King employee in Richmond Hill, Georgia, found a naked man lying unconscious in front of a restaurant dumpster. The search for his identity would take years.

Author: Matt Wolfe
Published: Dec 7, 2016
Length: 50 minutes (12,603 words)

Tom Ford on Sex, Death, and Penetration

An interview with perfectionist fashion designer and now two-time filmmaker Tom Ford, whose “Nocturnal Animals,” starting Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, is now in theaters.

Source: GQ
Published: Dec 2, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,868 words)

Awake in the Night

A story on the immigrant experience: Mary Kuanen and her family relocated to Denver, Colorado from Sudan to escape a civil war and humanitarian crises. Kuanen’s husband, Youn, was murdered in their suburban neighborhood, and she and her children have been trying to heal and build a better life for themselves.

Source: 5280 Magazine
Published: Dec 7, 2016
Length: 22 minutes (5,676 words)

Unprepared: The Difficulty of Getting a Prescription for a Drug That Effectively Prevents HIV Infection

When Spenser Mestel tries to get a prescription for Truvada in Iowa City, he discovers that medical breakthroughs are only one small part of HIV prevention.

Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 6, 2016
Length: 22 minutes (5,642 words)

Artists and Their Muse: Gentrification

A round-up profile on artists in New York City who are negatively affected by gentrification, recognize their role in it, and make art about it.

Published: Dec 2, 2016
Length: 9 minutes (2,289 words)

Surrender Donald! A Queer Call to Action Since 1989

Long before Donald Trump even ran for President, in 1989, he was the subject of a protest by AIDS activists. Steven Vider recalls ACT UP’s descent on Trump Tower to protest a lack of housing for homeless people with AIDS while Trump received tax breaks.

Source: Slate
Published: Dec 1, 2016
Length: 8 minutes (2,071 words)

Unclaimed

When one young unidentified Mexican national ends up comatose in the hospital after a car crash in the California desert, he comes to represent the struggle thousands of families endure when their friends or family disappear crossing the US-Mexico border.

Published: Dec 5, 2016
Length: 21 minutes (5,299 words)