An often surreal peek inside the highly successful world of Goop. Gwyneth Paltrow started the business in her kitchen as an aspirational newsletter focusing on fashion and food, but it has now become a ‘wellness’ behemoth, offering a dizzying array of products and services. http://bit.ly/nyt-goop
A former US Marine returns to cities in Iraq where he fought and lost friends, and assesses the situation on the ground today.
The story of neuroscientist Barbara Lipska, who has spent much of her career studying mental illness, before suffering her own illness when receiving experimental treatment for brain cancer. This left her uniquely placed to see the “thin line between life and death, between sanity and insanity.”
A story investigating what happens when over a million people get a mobile phone notification suggesting they have minutes left to live.
A warm and fittingly entertaining look at the world of cruise ship entertainers.
Like many popular video games the multiplayer first person shooter Counter-Strike is (very) big business, for star player and publisher alike. Less common is a secondary market for in game modifications that has developed into a minimally regulated multi-billion dollar gambling network.
The author tells the story of how he came to receive a lifetime ban from the remote island of Tristan da Cunha, and reflects on the nature of tourism.
This piece examines a memoir written by a former waiter at Paris’ celebrated Brasserie Lipp. In the manuscript, this unassuming man describes the horror of the Holocaust and deeds of extraordinary derring-do including infiltrating the SS, joining resistance groups, and hunting Nazis after the war whilst serving as a member of the French Foreign Legion. It’s far from clear whether large parts of the story are true or not, but perhaps that’s not the point.
The story of a couple who were on an American commercial ship sunk by a German U-Boat early in the war.
A look at the empire of a successfully returned 1980s televangelist, who gives supporters his “miracle spring water”.