Teenage Wastelands
An essay about getting older, loving music and being the middle-aged people at an arena concert.
California’s Water Crisis: A Reading List
Here are five perspectives on California’s water war, from one journalist’s report from the farms of the Central Valley to an ever-resonant essay on water by Joan Didion, written 35 years ago.
Livin’ Thing: An Oral History of ‘Boogie Nights’
How Paul Thomas Anderson created his Lawrence of Arabia for the San Fernando Valley porn scene.
Giving Away ‘Anatoly Z.’
The story of a boy’s un-adoption. The original family struggles with whether it made the right decision, while a new family tries to succeed in helping him.
Saskia Sassen’s Missing Chapter
Adolf Eichmann was a frequent visitor to sociologist Saskia Sassen’s childhood home in Argentina. This essay meditates on Sassen’s life and career, her father’s past and the notion of public and private lives. A response from Sassen can be found here.
An Ebola Doctor’s Return From the Edge of Death
The story of an American doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone.
The Pawn King
Are pawnshops exploiting the poor or saving those hit hardest by the recession?
The Gothic Life and Times of Horace Walpole
Two-hundred and fifty years ago, Horace Walpole published ‘The Castle of Otranto,’ a strange, campy book that’s widely considered to be the first Gothic novel. In real life, his family was beset by tragedy and his life’s obsession was a Gothic castle called Strawberry Hill.
The Worst School in America?
A tiny, eccentric Chicago institution was just voted the worst college in America. But perhaps Shimer College offers far more than can be quantified.
The 40-Year Search for Beverly’s Killer
Forty years after a young mother was murdered in her suburban kitchen a police force tackles their oldest cold case.
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