Earth League International Hunts the Hunters | The New Yorker
A conservation N.G.O. infiltrates wildlife-trafficking rings to bring them down.
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The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai | The New Yorker
As the emirate’s ruler espoused gender equality, four royal women staked their lives on escaping his control.
Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville
Tennessee’s government has turned hard red, but a new set of outlaw songwriters is challenging Music City’s conservative ways—and ruling bro-country sound.
‘The Bear’ and the Need for a Place to Belong
The powerful moral message of FX’s hit show.
Ride the Good Witches
"She threw herself into bonding with a breed of horse that seems touched by Viking spirit."
The A-Bomb, Selma, Broadway: She Saw It All and Knew Everyone
The mysterious neighbor claimed to have witnessed a nuclear detonation, marched on Selma and acted on Broadway. Would an overlooked form letter be her downfall?
Anne Rapp Immortalized Small-town Texas on the Big Screen. But She Can’t St
During Anne Rapp’s Hollywood career, she worked with the biggest names in movies. Now, at 72, she’s ready to tell her own stories about her Panhandle upbringing.
The Secretive, Delightful Man Changing Everything We Know About Theme Parks
The only thing more fun than the rides themselves is this guy’s staggering analysis of them.
The Titan Submersible Was “an Accident Waiting to Happen”
Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.
Saudi Arabia’s Vanished Princesses
King Abdullah allegedly imprisoned four of his daughters. After his death, the princesses’ supporters say, they disappeared.
The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever
While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.
The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
Ocean creatures soak up huge amounts of humanity’s carbon mess. Should we value them like financial assets?
The Dave Matthews Guide to Living and Dying
The troubadour of mellow vibes has been one of the biggest acts in music for three decades. Now 56, Matthews has been singing about mortality for a long time, and he’s confronting its specter in new and surprising ways.
Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin - The New Yorker | The New Yo
There was a flash of blue and a surge of radioactive heat. Nine days later, Louis Slotin was dead.
My Night in the Sistine Chapel
After the tourists go home, a museum’s collection tells its own story.
Creatures That Don’t Conform – Lucy Jones
In the woods near her home, Lucy Jones discovers the magic of slime molds and becomes entangled in their fluid, nonbinary way of being.
Nathan
Language lessons with an extraordinary ape.
The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe
Ken Eto rose through the ranks of the Chicago mob, and then it tried to kill him. The underworld would never be the same.
The Titanic of the Pacific - The Atavist Magazine
A tale of disaster, survival, and ghosts.
‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
The long read: A series of financial scandals have rocked Italy’s most glamorous club. But is the trouble at Juventus symptomatic of a deeper rot in world football?
The Lost Music of Connie Converse
A writer of haunting, uncategorizable songs, she once seemed poised for runaway fame. But only decades after she disappeared has her music found an audience.
The Hacker
Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.
The Prince
On the French Riviera and Italian coast, in the yacht clubs and shimmering ballrooms, everyone, including Pamela Anderson, wanted to get close to the prince. So did investigators. The story of Stefano Cernetic.
The Otherworldly Compositions of an Ethiopian Nun
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, who died recently, wrote pieces that were elegiac, but suffused with a sense of survival: we are broken, we are wounded, we carry on.
How America's Beloved Meyer Lemon Caused a Mid-Century Citrus Panic
The fragrant fruit hid a dark secret.
I hope you will never see this letter
Days before entering space, Yuri Gagarin writes a letter to be opened in the event of his death
What Really Happened After the Mutiny on the Bounty?
On November 28, 1787, His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty set sail from England with 46 men aboard, bound for the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific. Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh, her mission was to collect and deliver breadfruit plants to the West Indies, where they…
The Ancient Order of Bali
In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery
Bicycle – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.
‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-wo
In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger …
Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
The long read: Elvira and her brothers, Ricard and Ramón, were left at a train station in Barcelona aged two, four and five. As an adult, when Elvira decided to look for her parents, she discovered a family history wilder than anything she had imagined
Why Are These Italians Massacring Each Other With Oranges?
Every winter, Ivrea erupts into a ferocious three-day festival where its citizens pelt one another with 900 tons of oranges. (Yes, oranges.)
David Sulzer’s Wild World of Music
What can elephants, birds, and flamenco players teach a neuroscientist-composer about music?
How a Team of Ambitious Crooks in 1960s Montreal Planned the Biggest Bank Heist Anyone Had Ever Seen
In the spring of 1961, Georges Lemay, a dapper thirty-six-year-old French Canadian, spent his days holed up in his cottage on a private island on a river in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montre…
The Gospel According to Mavis Staples
A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy.
In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt
The science of the perfect second
Crime of the Centuries
Tomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed billionaire Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities. Many also happened to be stolen.
Beyond Borders: Adolfo Kaminsky’s Forgeries
Kaminsky bought chemistry books from bouquinistes along the Seine and taught himself to make explosives. But when a man...
The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience
Paul Laurence Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays and musical lyrics.
11 of the Greatest Scams of All Time, Curated by ‘Scam Goddess’ Laci Mosley
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The comedian and podcast host—and bonafide scam expert—shares her favorite capers, along with what makes them so irresistible.
The people who feel they are shrinking
A surprising number of people experience symptoms of this curious condition, which is named after Lewis Carroll's heroine, who changed size after eating and drinking.
Why don't humans have fur?
Most mammals, including our closest living relatives, have fur. So why did we lose ours?
Margaret Atwood Is Ready to Let It Rip
The author spoke with WIRED about her new short story collection "Old Babes in the Wood," crypto, the end of Roe v. Wade, and what’s left to inspire hope.
Vanquishing the Dutch, Jordan Stolz Creates a New Norse Myth - The New York
Stolz, the 18-year-old from Wisconsin, won three gold medals at the speedskating world championships, finishing his turns in a way that seemed like something out of a storybook.
The “Dazed and Confused” Generation
People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.
There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl
Pets left behind when people fled the disaster in 1986 seem to have seeded a unique population.
Sanctuary
A woman, an elephant, andan uncommon love story spanningnearly half a century.
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patients’ worlds
The long read: What do you say to someone whose wife prefers photographs of deceased authors to him?
How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled
The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a reporter discovered that behind the façade of innovation were lies and links to Russian intelligence.
What you learn about beauty and grief as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
After his brother’s death, Patrick Bringley took a job at the grandest place he could find.