The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Art Kleiner
Resurrection, the voyage to the land of the dead and back again, is common enough in old legends and in the experiences of people who live through a near-terminal illness or accident. But that journey is also made daily in hospital emergency rooms.
by Bucky McMahon
It was a show of unprecedented aggression in a surfers’ paradise: ten shark attacks in the past two years, three of them fatal. Now the surfers are biting back…
by Frank Bures
Late one night, a thief slipped into the backyard of Brad Rogers’s home, broke into the shed, lifted the Bianchi Sport SS he had owned for 30 years off its hook, then wheeled it out to the alley and disappeared into the darkness…
by Jessica Mitford
The bizarre world of the ‘average’ American funeral, far more curious than the death customs of ancient days or remote tribes…
by Peter Stark
An hour passes. at one point, a stray thought says you should start being scared, but fear is a concept that floats somewhere beyond your immediate reach, like that numb hand lying naked in the snow.
by Mark Bowden
The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries…
by Sarah Stillman
Police enlist young offenders as confidential informants. But the work is high-risk, largely unregulated, and sometimes fatal.
by Luke Dittrich
On May 22, a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado carved a six-mile-long path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 160. Unable to escape, two dozen strangers sought shelter in a gas station’s walk-in cooler while the funnel ripped apart every building, car, and living thing around. This is their story.
