Meet the 29-Year Old Making Bordeaux Cool Again

Bordeaux is a “hallmark of what wine should be,” but its consumption has become increasingly limited to oenophiles and billionaires. Jay Fielden looks at whether the 29-year-old scion of one of the region’s most vaunted dynasties can introduce it to a new generation.

Published: May 29, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,890 words)

ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape

Twenty-one women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority escaped the Islamic State and revealed how they were systematically raped by their captors. The Islamic State uses a selective reading of the Quran to argue that they have a religious right to enslave and rape those who practice a religion other than Islam.

Published: Aug 13, 2015
Length: 16 minutes (4,011 words)

DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception

DuPont disposed of toxic Teflon chemicals in unlined landfills, into the air, and directly into the Ohio River, and then they engaged in a decades-long cover-up about the health effects.

Source: The Intercept
Published: Aug 13, 2015
Length: 25 minutes (6,300 words)

A San Francisco Story

Princess Anastasia was homeless, and lived and died in the Castro. Two different families piece together a life.

Author: Leah Rose
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 13, 2015
Length: 11 minutes (2,876 words)

Evil but Stupid

“Why isn’t the media more paranoid?” Another look at Seymour Hersh’s Osama bin Laden exposé, and why the media rushed to dismiss it.

Author: Editors
Source: n+1
Published: Aug 13, 2015
Length: 17 minutes (4,448 words)

Letter to My Son the Weekend He Died

A father addresses his newly deceased 24-year-old son in this lyrical, wrenching essay.

Source: This Land Press
Published: Aug 12, 2015
Length: 22 minutes (5,664 words)

The Man Who Found the Titanic Is Not Done Yet

At seventy-three, Bob Ballard remains the world’s most vigorous ocean explorer.

Published: Aug 4, 2015
Length: 17 minutes (4,350 words)

The Crimes of Children

Children who commit crimes and enter the U.S. juvenile justice system often find themselves dealing with collateral consequences that affect them for the rest of their lives.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 10, 2015
Length: 26 minutes (6,549 words)

Travel, Foreignness, and the Spaces in Between: A Pico Iyer Reading List

These seven reads reveal Iyer as a perpetual wanderer of both place and time: navigating spaces in flux or forgotten, meditating on finding one’s place in an ever-shifting world, and, as part of this journey, exploring that which is deep within us.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 12, 2015

Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art

From July 2012: a look at the tax-free, treasure-crammed Switzerland warehouses known as freeports, which are “the closest thing to the Cayman Islands that the art world has to offer.”

Published: Jul 22, 2012
Length: 12 minutes (3,111 words)