Making House: Notes on Domesticity

Is a home something to be lived in, or looked at — or both? Rachel Cusk meditates on the duality of a life simultaneously constructed and experienced.

Published: Aug 31, 2016
Length: 20 minutes (5,007 words)

The Icy Elegance of Arthur Ashe … And the Passion of Muhammad Ali

The sportsmen’s lives read as a conversation on what it means to be American.

Source: Racquet
Published: Aug 31, 2016
Length: 22 minutes (5,613 words)

The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves

A seemingly average guy in Seattle has become an unlikely superhero on a bicycle.

Published: Aug 29, 2016
Length: 22 minutes (5,585 words)

Katie Rose on Top of the World

20 years after her father, climbing legend Scott Fischer, died on Everest — a tragedy chronicled in Into Thin Air — Katie Rose Fischer-Price traveled back.

Source: Seattle Met
Published: Aug 30, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,958 words)

The Ministry of Fun

Celebrities, skinny jeans, reality TV ─ Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. has it all, including DJs working the baptism. This is the new breed of Capitalist America’s pastors.

Source: Esquire
Published: Aug 30, 2016
Length: 21 minutes (5,286 words)

The Babysitters Club

Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on our adult lives, then speak to us like children. “We’re in the middle of a decade of post-dignity design, whose dogma is cuteness.”

Source: Real Life Mag
Published: Jul 27, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3,029 words)

“There’s nothing good in cooking, but there are no other options.”

Inside the women-owned restaurants of Yida, South Sudan’s largest — and most tenuous — refugee settlement.

Source: Eater
Published: Aug 17, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,385 words)

A Swarm of Controversy

In their struggle for survival against killer mites, bees get an unlikely ally: Monsanto.

Source: Wired
Published: Aug 26, 2016
Length: 17 minutes (4,359 words)

‘Exposure Is Bullshit’: Who Should Get Paid for Live Storytelling Events?

Rick Paulas on the thin margins of the IRL economy.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 29, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,986 words)

The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror

Heath takes us through a careful account of the night a 45-year-old Uber driver named Jason Dalton murdered six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan while picking up fares. Dalton’s motives that night are baffling.

Source: GQ
Published: Aug 22, 2016
Length: 41 minutes (10,446 words)