My Life With Face Blindness
On life with prosopagnosia, a condition that impairs sufferers’ abilities to recognise familiar faces.
My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
An intimate portrait of a popular local restaurant shutting down due to covid-19, written by its owner. The piece looks beyond the end of this crisis, to what purpose a restaurant will have in our cities in the future.
The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
A look at the extraordinary prevalence of big cat breeding and ownership in the United States, an industry filled with strange stories and unscrupulous characters (warning: for those watching the Netflix documentary Tiger King, spoilers abound).
The Pint-Size Nation off the English Coast
The story of Sealand, a World War II sea defence tower just off the cost of England in the North Sea, ‘conquered’ by a former Army Major on behalf of his wife in 1966.
Every Inch of Earth
The author writes about his friend and collaborator, with whom he founded a photo agency in Iraq, before he was taken by ISIS.
Everything on ‘Naked and Afraid’ Is Real—and I Lived It
The author writes about her extraordinary experience on the long-running Discovery Channel show Naked and Afraid, where two strangers have to survive in the wilderness together with nothing but a handful of tools.
The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind
A great story about a master player in the “murky intersection of spycraft, politics, and war” during the Cold War, and whether his biggest operation was a “monkey wrench or a major event?”
Survivor’s Guilt in the Mountains
A man seeking to help elite mountaineers deal with a sadly common occurrence in their line of work – the death of their friends and collaborators.
The Hustlers at Scores
This 2015 story of dancers at a New York strip club conning customers has been turned into a hit 2019 film starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu.