Essays & Multimedia Features

ESSAYS, COLUMNS, FEATURES AND STORIES

Erin Allday, “Last Men Standing” (13977 words)
Holly Anderson, “Life’s Rich Pageant: Meet a Florida Man” (4545 words)
Aaron Bady, “Libertarian Fairy Tales: The Bundy Militia’s Revisionist History” (2549 words)
Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal, “From Master Plan to No Plan” (4465 words)
Andy Baio, “Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s Job” (1366 words)
Katie Baker, “Love Letters” (3945 words)
Katie Baker, “The Letter the Stanford Victim Read Aloud to Her Attacker” (7566 words)
Jesse Barron, “The Babysitters Club” (3037 words)
Amos Barshad, “Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck!” (7335 words)
Peter Beinart, “Torture is Who We Are” (3820 words)
Burkhard Bilger, “Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead” (8647 words
Nick Bilton, “How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down” (5119 words)
danah boyd, “Hacking the Attention Economy” (1997 words)
Taylor Branch, “The Shame of College Sports” (14615 words)
Steven Brill, “Is America Any Safer?” (18294 Words)
Rembert Browne, “Going Down the Rabbit Hole With Nicki Minaj” (1795 words)
Rembert Browne, “The Front Lines of Ferguson” (3491 words)
Susan Burton “Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up” (4911 words)
Danny Chau, “The Burning Desire for Hot Chicken” (5250 words)
Adrian Chen, “Unfollow” (10654 words)
Adrian Chen, “The Agency” (8151 words)
Michelle Chihara, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Finance” (3610 words)
Mary H K Choi, “My Foreign Mom” (2400 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to my Son” (8442 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” (15836 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Paranoid Style of American Policing” (1092 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Fear of a Black President” (9709 words)
Pamela Colloff, “The Reckoning” (12980 words)
Pamela Colloff, “The Innocent Man” (12673 words)
Jason Concepcion, “What Whiplash Gets Wrong About Music School, and Right About Greatness” (982 words)
Peter Coviello, “My Thoughts are Murder” (3274 words)
Vinson Cunningham, “What Makes an Essay American?” (1902 words)
Madeleine Davies, “Becoming Ugly” (2201 words)
Hossein Derakhshan, “The Web We Have to Save” (3633 words)
Hossein Derakhshan, “Social Media is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV” (885 words)
Caitlin Dewey, “Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us” (1526 words)
Helen DeWitt, “Diary of Being Stalked” (4153 words)
Jenny Diski, “Why didn’t you just do what you were told?” (6229 words)
Chris Dixon, “What’s Next in Computing” (2484 words)
Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, “How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work” (5125 words)
Shonni Enelow, “The Great Recession” (3371 words)
Susan Faludi, “Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not” (14164 words)
Henry Farrell, “A Brief Theory of Very Serious People” (1275 words)
Abbey Fenbert, “The Pitch Meeting for Wishbone” (1022 words)
Carlin Flora, “Bad Friends” (2400 words)
Paul Ford, “10 Timeframes” (2608 words)
FreeDarko, “The Day Never Ended” (13305 words)
Helen Garner, “The Insults of Age” (2132 words)
Jonothan Gatehouse, “America Dumbs Down” (2370 words)
Lindsey Gates-Markel, “In Celebration of Old-School Livejournal” (1824 words)
Roxane Gay, “Why America Needs Internet Outrage” (930 words)
Roxane Gay, “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence” (2581 words)
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, “If He Hollers Let Him Go” (9330 words)
Christopher Goffard, “Framed” (16262 words)
Jonathan Gold, “Teaching in the Post-Truth Era” (2081 words)
Jeremy Gordon, “Is Everything Wrestling?” (1825 words)
Kathleen Hale, “Prey” (6126 words)
Spencer Hall, “Broke” (3408 words)
Nikole Hannah-Jones “Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City” (10148 words)
Malcolm Harris, “Lego Marx” (4255 words)
Heather Havrilesky, “What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage” (2143 words)
Emma Healey, “Disrupters, Disconnectionists, and Dicks” (2994 words)
Jeet Heer, “What Were Blogs?” (1200 words)
Zoë Heller, “‘Hot’ Sex and Young Girls” (2813 words)
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, “One More Time” (2700 words)
Amanda Hess, “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet” (7382 words)
David Hill, “The Union, Forever” (7310 words)
David Hill, “Sweat in the Game: A Gambler’s Grind in the NBA” (3061 words)
David Hill, “Fading the Vig”
Jacob Hodes, “Whitewood Under Siege” (4237 words)
Marc Hogan, “The Contentious Tale of the McDonald’s ‘I’m Lovin It’ Jingle” (1450 words)
Alex Horton, “In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me.” (1804 words)
Anne Hull, “The Lonely Road of Staying Clean” (3778 words)
Sarah Jeong, “Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic?” (2118 words)
Tom Junod, “The State of the American Dog” (6324 words)
Tom Junod, “The Falling Man” (7385 words)
Tom Junod, “Theater of Pain” (5947 words)
Tom Junod, “Surviving the Fall” (1889 words)
Jay Caspian Kang, “The Headline, The Tweet, and the Unfair Significance of Jeremy Lin” (2234 words)
Jay Caspian Kang, “Our Demand is Simple: Stop Killing Us” (6966 words)
Jay Caspian Kang, “The High is Always the Pain and the Pain is Always the High” (5173 words)
Alex Kantrowitz, “How the 2016 Election Blew Up in Facebook’s Face” (3443 words)
Walter Kirn, “Confessions of an Ex-Mormon” (6000 words)
Jonathan Kirshner, “America, America” (4218 words)
Phil Klay, “The Citizen-Soldier” (9382 words)
Chuck Klosterman, “Myspace.com/Doppelganger” (1169 words)
Chuck Klosterman, “Three Man Weave” (2048 words)
Chuck Klosterman, “Taylor Swift Runs the World” (4624 words)
Chuck Klosterman, “The Pretenders” (3400 words)
Jackie Kruszewski, “In Which We Don’t Do Coke in the Bathroom of the Restaurant” (2055 words)
Leslie Jamison, “The Empathy Exams” (9470 words)
Leslie Jamison, “Fog Count” (6444 words)
Chris Jones, “The Art of the Body Shot” (1158 words)
Chris Jones, “TV’s Crowning Moment of Awesome” (5085 words)
Molly Lambert, “Porntopia” (10555 words)
Molly Lambert, “In Which We Teach You How to Be a Woman in any Boys’ Club” (2829 words)
Molly Lambert, “Lexapro, Kanye & Me” (1052 words)
Kiese Laymon, “What I Pledge Allegiance To” (3418 words)
Kiese Laymon, “Da Art of Storytellin” (1233 words)
Kiese Laymon, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” (4711 words)
Jill Lepore, “The Disruption Machine” (6025 words)
Jill Lepore, “Franklin, Reconsidered” (4968 words)
Jill Lepore, “The Last Amazon: Wonder Woman” (7938 words)
Jill Lepore, “Battleground America” (9205 words)
Ariel Levy, “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” (3906 words)
Ariel Levy, “Lift and Separate” (6139 words)
Ariel Levy, “A Ring of One’s Own” (7775 words)
James Livingston, “Fuck Work” (3000 words)
Patricia Lockwood, “Rape Joke” (1295 words)
German Lopez, “America’s Gun Problem, Explained” (3466 words)
Jeb Lund, “Everything Stupid is Alive, and Everything Stupid Can Kill You” (1906 words)
Molly McHugh, “How We Built Our Bubble” (3165 words)
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “When Your Curriculum Has been Tumblrized” (665 words)
Sarah Maslin Nir, “The Price of Nice Nails” (6594 words)
Dylan Matthews “The TSA is a waste of money that doesn’t save lives” (1064 words)
Alexandra Molotkow, “Sing to Me” (2756 words)
Kevin Morris, “The Greatest Story Reddit Ever Told” (5562 words)
Wesley Morris, “2015: :The Year We Obsessed Over Identity” (3811 words)
Wesley Morris, “Last Taboo” (6236 words)
Michael Nelson, “No Control: Thoughts on the End of the Headphone Jack” (3578 words)
Emily Nussbaum, “How Jokes Won the Election” (4100 words)
Rebecca Onion, “Against Generations” (3100 words)
Rebecca Onion, “Snapshots of History” (2373 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “Inappropriate Internal Responses I Have Had to Innocuous Statements” (233 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “Femslash Friday: Mean Girls’ Layers Upon Lesbian Layers” (980 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “The Queen of Summer: Martin Prince’s Finest Moments” (1184 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “Everyone Has Imposter Syndrome Except for You” (334 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “If Stanley Tucci Were Your Boyfriend” (639 words)
Patton Oswalt, “A Closed Letter to Myself About Thievery, heckling and Rape Jokes” (6333 words)
Ian Parker, “The Story of a Suicide” (12875 words)
Guy Patrick Cunningham, “Don’t Settle: The Journalist in the Shadow of the Commercial Web” (4581 words)
Ben Paynter, “Genius: The Nickelback Story” (3316 words)
Laurie Penny, “Meltdown of the Phantom Snowflakes” (2815 words)
Laurie Penny, “On Nerd Entitlement” (2815 words)
Anne Helen Petersen, “There Are Things of Which I May Not Speak” (2903 words)
Anne Helen Petersen, “Here’s What It’s Like at Standing Rock” (1545 words)
Anne Helen Petersen, “Jennifer Lawrence and the History of Cool Girls” (5927 words)
Brian Phillips, “We Are Living in a Robot Moment” (2586 words)
Brian Phillips, “Shirtless Trump Saves Drowning Kitten” (1738 words)
Brian Phillips, “A Fighter Abroad” (4950 words)
Brian Phillips, “The Sea of Crises” (10196 words)
Brian Phillips, “Corruption, Murder, and the Beautiful Game” (4209 words)
Charlie Pierce, “The Cynic and Senator Obama” (6590 words)
Lisa Rab, “Life Below the Poverty Line in Banktown, USA” (3769 words)
Claudia Rankine, “The Meaning of Serena Williams” (3189 words)
Venkatesh Rao, “The American Cloud” (3800 words)
Elspeth Reeve, “The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens” (9864 words)
Jordan Ritter Conn, “The End of the Hoop Dream” (7500 words)
Soraya Roberts, “Winona, Forever” (9618 words)
Hanna Rosin, “The Overprotected Kid” (8849 words)
Franceska Rouzard, “Advanced Search” (4587 words)
Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion and Scott Glover, “Oxycontin’s 12-Hour Problem” (6778 words)
Larry Sanger, “Is there a new Geek Anti-Intellectualism?” (2373 words)
Eli Saslow, “Into the Lonely Quiet” (6433 words)
Eli Saslow, “The White Flight of Derek Black” (6536 words)
Eli Saslow, “’How’s Amanda?’: A Story of Truth, Lies, and American Addiction” (5799 words)
George Saunders, “My Writing Education: A Time Line” (4187 words)
George Saunders, “Who Are All These Trump Supporters?” (10474 words)
George Saunders, “The Great Divider” (11158 words)
Tom Scocca, “On Smarm” (9200 words)
Kathryn Schulz, “The Really Big One” (6184 words)
Kathryn Schulz, “Citizen Khan: The Muslim Tamale King of Wyoming” (7700 words)
Sarah Schweitzer, “The Life and Times of Strider Wolf” (6649 words)
A.O. Scott, “Film Snob? Is That So Wrong?” (1774 words)
Jennifer Senior, “Why You Never Truly Leave High School” (5530 words)
Matthew Shaer, “Whatsoever Things are True” (16226 words)
Earl Shorris, “American Vespers: The Ebbing of the Body Politic” (4237 words)
Jes Skolnik, “The Fight for All-Ages Shows” (1254 words)
Ben Smith, “My Life in the Blogosphere” (2074 words)
Zadie Smith, “Generation Why?” (5685 words)
Zadie Smith, “Fences: A Brexit Diary” (4557 words)
Zadie Smith, “What Beyonce Taught Me” (3610 words)
Nick Solares, “New York Pizza Styles: A Complete Guide” (3724 words)
Leah Sottile, “This is Meant to Hurt You” (3793 words)
Rebecca Solnit, “Living in Dark Times.” (3610 words)
Dean Starkman, “Confidence Game” (7710 words)
Sarah Stillman, “Taken” (11462 words)
Matt Taibbi, “Why Sports are for Losers” (1641 words)
Matt Taibbi, “The Great American Bubble Machine” (9726 words)
Matt Taibbi, “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?” (6189 words)
Matt Taibbi, “Looting Main Street” (4422 words)
Jason Tanz, “Playing for Time” (6454 words)
Amanda Taub, “The Truth about ‘Political Correctness’: It doesn’t actually exist” (1889 words)
Sam Thielman, “No Matter How Your Heart is Grieving: Disney for the Sad” (4253 words)
Andrew Thomas, “Heaps of Woe” (1812 words)
Jia Tolentino, “Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion”
Wells Tower, “The Elvis Impersonator, the Karate Instructor, a Fridge Full of Severed Heads, and the Plot 2 Kill the President” (8386 words)
Reggie Ugwu, “Inside the Playlist Factory” (5733 words)
Don van Natta, Jr. “Jerry Football” (10875 words)
Claire Vaye Watkins, “On Pandering” (5152 words)
Vanessa Veselka, “In the Wake of Protest: One Woman’s Attempt to Unionize Amazon” (4757 words)
James Vincent, “Breaking Down the Best Slapstick GIF We’ve Ever Seen” (681 words)
Sarah Vowell, “The Speech the President Should Give” (741 words)
Alissa Walker, “Stop Drinking Bottled Water” (1531 words)
Carvell Wallace, “Letter to my Mother after Charleston” (888 words)
David Foster Wallace, “E unibus pluram: Television and US Fiction” (21928 words)
David Foster Wallace, “Roger Federer as Religious Experience” (6619 words)
David Foster Wallace, “String Theory” (15000 words)
David Foster Wallace, “9/11 The View from the Midwest” (4439 words)
David Foster Wallace, “Host” (14934 words)
Charlie Warzel, “A Honeypot for Assholes” (5970 words)
Jennifer Weiner, “The F Word” (2250 words)
Lindy West, “Hello, I am Fat” (1106 words)
Lindy West, “A Great Big Person” (2903 words)
Gabriel Winant, “Who Works for the Workers?” (5628 words)
Molly Young, “Sweatpants in Paradise” (2957 words)
Jess Zimmerman, “Hunger Makes Me” (3130 words)
Dave Zirin, “’Ne Vous Laissez Pas Manipuler,’ aka #StayWoke” (914 words)

MULTIMEDIA FEATURES

Alphonso, McKenna and Van Paassen, “Student Aid”
Shane Bauer, “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard” (36619 words)
Berkeley Grad Media/Journalism, “Chasing Lithium”
John Branch, “Snow Fall” (17000 words)
Steven Brill, “America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker”
Scott Carney, “An Economic Analysis of the Somali Pirate Business Model”
Coral Davenport, Josh Haner, Larry Buchanon & Derek Watkins, “Greenland is Melting Away”
Joshua Davis, “Deep Sea Cowboys”
Melissa del Bosque, “Beyond the Border”
Andre Elliot & Ruth Fremson, “Invisible Child”
Fletcher, Tretick and Reed, ”An Oral History of the March on Washington”
Paul Ford, “What is Code” (38000 words)
Brett Gaylor, “Do Not Track”
Jayson Greene, “Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History”
Vi Hart and Nicky Case, “The Parable of the Polygons”
Patrick Hruby, “The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis”
The Intercept, “The Drone Papers”
Josie Jammet, “The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev”
Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld, “”Terms of Service“
Kate Kilpatrick and Ian Bates, “Treasured Island”
Adam Kissick, “Newport Folk Festival” (photoseries)
Bob Marshall, Brian Jacobs, Al Shaw, “Losing Ground“
Caitlin McNally, “Stickup Kid” (1000 Words, Atavist)
NPR, Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
NYT, Walking New York
Brian Phillips, “Out in the Great Alone” (19296 words)
QKatie, “Cooking to Remember Home” (Verse Video)
Evan Ratliff, Vanish (1200 Words)
Evan Ratliff, “The Mastermind”
Eric Reidy, “Ghost Boat”
Slate Staff, “2014: The year of outrage“
John Jeremiah Sullivan, “The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie”
UNC Journalism, “The UnderCurrent”
Mark Johnson and Rick Wood, “The Course of their Lives”

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