The Remnants of War: A Meditation on Peleliu

Our latest Exclusive is a new essay by Anna Vodicka about the island of Peleliu, which was home to one of World War II’s bloodiest battles.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 21, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3,051 words)

Rebel Virgins and Desert Mothers

The radical women of early Christianity.

Author: Alex Mar
Source: Atlas Obscura
Published: Jan 21, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,902 words)

I Killed a Chicken

Daniel Wallace killed a chicken, and it didn’t change him. Musings on life, death, and inevitability.

Published: May 1, 2015
Length: 11 minutes (2,799 words)

The Man Behind Ted Cruz

Jeff Roe will do anything to win. Just watch.

Author: Andy Kroll
Published: Jan 20, 2016
Length: 26 minutes (6,724 words)

Neighbors of the Fence

The story of life in Standard Heights, Louisiana, a town next to an oil refinery, told in words and images.

Published: May 1, 2015
Length: 27 minutes (6,884 words)

Out Of This World

A primer on the psychological effects of space travel.

Source: Fast Company
Published: Nov 5, 2014
Length: 14 minutes (3,615 words)

Is It Still Possible to Get Away with a Heist?

The Hatton Garden raid was meticulously planned and orchestrated, but its perpetrators were still caught. The average age of the burglars was 66, all aging members of London’s criminal aristocracy. Is the old school heist a thing of the past in today’s interconnected age of CCTV and GPS-tagged pictures?

Source: The Telegraph
Published: Jan 15, 2016
Length: 21 minutes (5,336 words)

Bad News: Censorship, Fear & Genocide Memorials

“They are manufacturing fear,” Moses said, gasping. “We survivors have asked them to stop this violence. What do they want from us?” An excerpt from the new book by Anjan Sundaram.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 19, 2016
Length: 28 minutes (7,197 words)

Our Band Should Not Be Your Life

What is it like to be a band still very much at the bottom, playing house shows and sleeping on living room floors? Barshad spends six days on tour with The Quarterbacks to find out.

Source: Fader
Published: Jan 18, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,983 words)

The Sugar Sleuth

A former dentist dropped a promising career at the Kaiser Foundation to dig through old sugar industry archives, looking for proof that Big Sugar steered scientists away from looking at the ingredient’s harmful effects.

Published: Jan 18, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,836 words)