Harry Houdini and the Art of Escape
A profile of the most famous magician of them all.
Keir Starmer: The sensible radical
A profile of Kier Starmer and his journey from human rights barrister to head of the Crown Prosecution Service, and now to Leader of the Labour Party.
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).
Andrew Cuomo, a Man Alone
The Governor of New York is someone said to be having a ‘good crisis’, providing robust daily briefings and an all action style in taking on covid-19. This profile looks deeper into the workings of a man with fairly transparent ambitions on the biggest job in US politics.
Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.
The gripping personal story of one Uighur family’s struggles across two generations facing the repressive restrictions in place in the region.
Infographics in the Time of Cholera
A look at an early example of journalistic data visualisation in The New York Tribune, used to visualise a cholera outbreak in 1849.
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.
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.
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.
How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders
A look at how Bernie Sanders’ primary campaign faltered in recent weeks.