The Walter White of Wichita

How a self-taught chemist made drug dealers millions, and helped fuel a fentanyl epidemic.

Source: Fusion
Published: Feb 2, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2,530 words)

This Better and Truer History

On memory, therapy, and cats in the dryer: A discussion with J.M. Coetzee.

Source: Viking
Published: Feb 2, 2016
Length: 19 minutes (4,835 words)

How to Talk about the Weather Like a Newfoundlander

The world we inhabit always shapes the language we use. In Canada’s remote, frigid province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Emily Urquhart finds poetry in the everyday expressions locals use to talk about ice, snow, and other natural phenomena.

Source: Hakai Magazine
Published: Dec 2, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,444 words)

The Strange, Crazy Afterlife of a Reality TV Star

In 2009, Tareq Salahi and his then-wife Michaele crashed a White House dinner. Then his life crashed.

Source: Washingtonian
Published: Feb 1, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,903 words)

Big Pharma’s Worst Nightmare

Jamie Love has spent years battling global drug companies, determined to ensure that the world’s poorest people have access to life-saving medicines.

Source: The Guardian
Published: Jan 28, 2016
Length: 23 minutes (5,758 words)

Unfathomable Life: A Writer Grieves for Her Father, Through Five Movies

After Ritchey’s father died of complications of “a stroke-like event,” she processes her grief while watching films throughout the year.

Source: rogerebert.com
Published: Jan 28, 2016
Length: 8 minutes (2,000 words)

Naked and Unafraid: A Reading List About Nudity

Here are five stories about the sociopolitics of stripping down.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 31, 2016

The Box That Built the Modern World

How shipping containers transformed shipping and manufacturing, making distance irrelevant.

Source: nautil.us
Published: Jul 25, 2013
Length: 14 minutes (3,573 words)

Keeping Up With Dr. Miami

In the operating room with the controversial “Dr. Miami,” a plastic surgeon and Snapchat star who shares graphic play-by-plays of the boob jobs, liposuction and butt lifts he performs with his hundreds of thousands of followers.

Source: MEL Magazine
Published: Jan 28, 2016
Length: 14 minutes (3,553 words)

A Guy Like Me

Scott, a hockey enforcer, opens up about his experience with becoming an unlikely N.H.L. All-Star.

Author: John Scott
Published: Jan 28, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3,179 words)