Sitemap - 2015 - Ory's Sunday Reads

Meet Burna Boy, The Nigerian Singer Putting Africa First

China: The Superpower of Mr. Xi

Made In Holland: The Chanel Of Africa

Why Is “Survivor” Still on Television?

A Deadly Dance

An Anthropology of Electricity from the Global South

Touched by an Angel

Born To Be Conned

Rebel without a Pause

There will be blood

When Did You Start to Think of Yourself As African?”

The Machiavelli of Maryland

Encyclopedias Are Time Capsules

Stars—They’re Just Like Us!

India’s Untouchable Queen of the Dead

Michael Essien: ‘José Mourinho has a big ego but in a good way’

From Alexandria to Babel

Adele: Inside Her Private Life and Triumphant Return

The Lure of Luxury

Arsene Wenger’s Full Interview With L’equipe Sport And Style

How Your Embryo Knew What To Do

Hiking deep into Dogon country in Mali

Swimming While Eritrean

Winning Isn’t Everything

Da Art Of Storytellin’ (a Prequel)

The Generation That Doesn't Remember Life Before Smartphones

English is not normal

A Vision of Substance & Style: The Story of Bôhten

Why are there no fish in the deepest deep sea?

The last voyage of El Faro

The Time Republicans Helped Build an All-Black Town Called 'Soul City'

Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells?

Neuropolitics, Where Campaigns Try To Read Your Mindneuropolitics, Where Campaigns Try To Read Your Mind

That Time I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil

Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months

Running Deep, the Roots of King Sunny Adé

Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139

The universe’s most miraculous molecule

American Horror Story: The Cecil Hotel

The Evolution of Cristiano Ronaldo

The World's Most Controversial High-Wire Walker Has A Plan To Take Over Entertainment

Romantic Regimes

The strange case of Anna Stubblefield

The Writing Life of Warsan Shire, a Young, Prolific Poet

Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids

I Would Rather Be Herod’s Pig: The History Of A Taboo

Fela Kuti: Chronicle of A Life Foretold

Why do we laugh inappropriately?

Maybe Connect

Sound Decision

Uncovering the secret history of the Myers-Briggs test

The Network Man

How to get away with the perfect murder

Future reading

Plan B

America's most admired law breaker

What the Michelin Stars Mean for You, Person Who Likes Food

Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain

The Fast, Furry Rise Of The Instagram-famous Pet

The Avenger

Terrence Howard’s Dangerous Mind

A Humble Pope, Challenging the World

The secret history of Scrabble

Who killed the 20th century's greatest spy?

Murder in the Ivy League

How Much Harm Can Sugar Do?

Revisiting the ghosts of my childhood

The inside story behind a spectacular new hominin find

The Science Of Love In The 21st Century

Red Falcon

Valérie Bah

Why we hate cheap things

A Conversation With Claudia Rankine

Nashville’s Cheatin’ Heart: Why Country Music Has Been Obsessed With Adultery for the Last Century

Slender Man Is Watching

Who’ll Freeze First? A Puzzle About Size and Staying Warm

Sometimes the Fire is not Fire

The Two Michael Sams

The 5,000-year Secret History Of The Watermelon

Chinese merchants and the inroads of globalization.

Hiroshima

How A Powerful Criminal Network Infiltrated The Bank Of England

When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

Will the Pope change the Vatican or will the Vatican change the Pope?

Learning Gertrud

Richard Pryor’s Comedy of Fear

As The Met Abandons Blackface, A Look At The Legacy Of African Americans In Opera

Rule of the jogi

A blue jean history

In the Listening Room

What Springfield has to do with a common design

How Singer won the sewing machine war

Barbara’s Backlash

The Body Behind The Little White Church

Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex

“Am I confident? I am Serena Williams.”

Marriage is a Private Affair

The story of Lagos’ ill-fated 1976 Professional Tennis Tournament

The Tampon: A History

How corn made its way into just about everything we eat

Why Does the Mob Want to Erase This Writer?

The Talented Mr. Khater

Cassette Revolution: Why 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World

Kenya’s ‘Little Italy’

How Israel defies drought

The Sikhs who saved parmesan

SOUP by Chikodili Emelumadu

The man who was caged in a zoo

The Distributed Brainpower of Social Insects

This Is How Uber Takes Over a City

Naomi Campbell on Naomi Campbell

The Child Preachers of Brazil

The Mayor Vs. The Mogul

Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image

The Manhattan Project’s Secret Weapon

Endangered Pastimes

How Do African Grasslands Support So Many Plant-Eaters?

Harry Devert Took a Wrong Turn in Mexico, and He Was Never Seen Again

THE EVIL GENIUS BEHIND THE MIGRANT CRISIS

Chasing the next billion with Sundar Pichai

Lost in the Jungle: The Search for Cody Dial

The Dragon Autopsy

How Things Break

Ten black composers whose works deserve to be heard more often

Making history: Women, soccer and the World Cup

My Biafran Eyes

The Return Of The Mercenary

Life and Death at Cirque du Soleil

House of Secrets

Light

Love And Cricket In Queens County

How Necking Shaped the Giraffe

The Desert Blues

When disgusting goes viral: Strong negative emotions can push social sharing through the roof

Lagos Must Prosper

Where Would the Kardashians Be Without Kris Jenner?

TOMORROW’S ADVANCE MAN

George Clinton: Doctor Atomic

The People’s Pope and the Chairman of Everything

A League of His Own

Email: Unloved. Unbreakable

Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation

The Untouchable John Brennan

The cost of pure water in Ghana

How a bee sting saved my life: poison as medicine

Trolls in the Middle Ages

Robby Mook Just Took The Hardest Job In Politics—saving The Clintons From Themselves

An oral history of Shaq, Penny, and the Orlando Magic’s lost NBA dynasty.

A Beginner's Guide to the Secret Language of Airport Runways

eNGAGEMENT” by Richard Oduor Oduku

The Invention of the Baby Carrot

Isolation Play

How a flailing startup became the world's biggest computing platform

‘We Are the World’: A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown

The Invisible Country: Somaliland’s Struggle for Independence

A Very Naughty Little Girl

Inside the Mad, Mad World of TripAdvisor

The revolution that’s changing the way your child is taught

Olikoye

The origin of the anus

The crazy, true-life adventures of Norway’s most radical billionaire

The crazy, bitter battle over Benihana

My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter

Insectophilia

Why We Sleep Together

How a series of humiliating events led to one of the fastest-growing startups EVER

When Did Obama Give Up?

How the Boxer Brief Got Into America's Pants

Why the fax machine isn't quite dead yet

The revolution wasn't televised: The early days of YouTube

The Fixer

Inside the food industry: the surprising truth about what you eat

The Man Who Made the World Cup Trophy

How America’s Favorite Baby-Goat Club Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Farming in Africa

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis: ‘if I Weren’t Scared, I’d Be Awfully Dangerous’

The Invention of the Cardboard Box

The Rich Man’s Dropout Club

10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned

The Greatest Fans on Earth

Russia: Forever a Time of Troubles

Mail-Order Viruses Are The New Antibiotics

The Hunting of Billie Holiday

“Who named Silicon Valley?”

Why Is India So Crazy For World Records?

Who Is the Pope?

The Elegant Eye

When food is a death sentence

The Song That Never Ends

Show Leigh Steinberg the Money (Again)

The murder that has obsessed Italy

Marketing Myopia

Countries And Western: The Geopolitics Of Music

Adrian Carton de Wiart: The unkillable soldier

How a young entrepreneur built an empire by repackaging memes.

Colour to dye for

A Tree Is Known By Its Fruit

Meet The 'Weird' Guy Trying To Invent A New Computing Platform

A Look At the History of Christmas

GQ Icon: Stevie Wonder