Longreads

Swole Without a Goal

When I started gaining weight, I didn't just want to get big: I wanted to occupy as much as space as possible.

Alanis in Chains

The pressured pop career that led to Jagged Little Pill.

The Same War

The acquittal of the man who stood trial for the murder of Cindy Gladue inspired a swell of voices calling for change.

How to Fix a Soccer Game

In this excerpt from The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime, Declan Hill investigates the intricacies of match-fixing in soccer: how fixes are arranged, how they're signalled, and how everyone gets paid.

'Our Brownness Does Not Belong Here'

How Brown should a Brown person be?

The Human Repair Shop

It's not easy to put a person back together, even at the U.S. military's premier burn unit.

Blank Space

Our minds have a funny way of re-writing history. What do we do with all we’ve forgotten?

'I Only Read It For The Interviews'

Playboy has always relied on a balance between the erotic and the literary, and its long interviews are the most consistent asset for the latter. But what's that identity worth in 2015?

The Scars To Prove It

In the mid 2000s, new programs made it seem like Canada might finally reckon with the toxic legacy of residential schools. Less than 10 years later, they're going broke and forgotten. Sounds familiar.

'One of the Most Ridiculous Things That Has Ever Occurred in the History of the United States'

In this excerpt from Red Heat, Alex von Tunzelmann looks at how the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion changed the balance of power during the Cold War.