Sitemap - 2018 - Ory's Sunday Reads

When Your Body Says No

A Day With Stephen A. Smith, The Hardest Working Man In Sports Television

Death in the alpine

The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini

Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer

The Social History Of Religion

Demon underneath

Okra in Lagos

Under the Spell of James Baldwin

The Strange Case Of Jean Harris

The Crossover

The last curious man

Super recognisers: the people who never forget a face

More Fire

Jose Mourinho's Last Stand

Blood Cries Out

The Story of the Black Band-Aid

How Lil Wayne became on of hip hop's most durable stars

What’s Wrong With Bananas

This Is What the Journey Does

Saucy Business

Boy Scouts In A War Zone

The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

The Origins of Office Speak

All Hail The Queens: A Look Back At The Pioneers Of Female Rap

Runs in the Family

Italian Wines Are Drunk, Not Collected'

Kiese Laymon Knows His New Memoir Is Raw. But It’s Not Trauma Porn.

The Most Successful Female Everest Climber Of All Time Is A Housekeeper In Hartford, Connecticut

Lyrical Ladies, Writing Women and the legend of Lauryn Hill

How to Stop Saying Sorry When Things Aren’t Your Fault

The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life Of The Saturation Diver

Stay Messi, my friend

Sole Mate

Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?

The FBI of the National Park Service

How I Learned to Embrace Power as a Woman in Washington

Kylian Mbappé Is the Future of Soccer

Yuki Kawauchi Is Distance Running’s Elite Oddball

Raised by YouTube

Nigerians Travel: Travel Beyond National Geographic

Outkast’s ‘Aquemini,’ the blueprint of the Southern black renaissance, turns 20

Do We Really Live Longer Than Our Ancestors?

Porklife: Building a Better Pig

If the Point of Capitalism is to Escape Capitalism, Then What’s the Point of Capitalism?

How do you decaffeinate coffee?

‘If the short story is a sprint, the novel is a marathon,’ and more writing advice from Lesley Nneka Arimah

Blighted By Empire: What The British Did To India

The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world

How the octopus got its smarts

Who was the real Franco?

The Billionaires and The Guru: How a Family Burned Through $2 Billion

To Post, Or Not To Post?

African Hospitality Served with Spaghetti Bolognese

How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

The Ugly History Of Beautiful Things: Perfume

Home is better than this place

‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types

The World’s Most Peculiar Company

Axes of Evil

A Baseball Dream 30 Years In The Making Washed Away

The Business of Blending In

Black in the USSR

India's Rugby Revolution

The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone

The Story Of The Plastic Bag

On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher

How TripAdvisor changed travel

Ode to Gray

The Black Panthers still in prison After 46 years, will they ever be set free?

A house for Mr. Soyinka

The disgusting origins of colour purple

How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister

Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter

See No Evil

Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon

The Insane Saga Of The Fake Saudi Prince Who Scammed Miami's Rich And Famous

This Black Woman Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her.

Tokyo’s Long Lines Lead to Magic (and Life-Changing Ramen)

SpaceX’s Secret Weapon Is Gwynne Shotwell

Meet The People Who Grind Out The Best Movie Trailers In The World

Dead Man Walking

Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”

The last days of Marc Andre Leclerc

Mother tongue: the lost inheritance of diaspora

Heineken’s Charlene De Carvalho: A Self-made Heiress

The left side of Steve Kerr's brain

The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String

Bessie Head: A Life of Letters

Is The World Running Out Of Sand? The Truth Behind Stolen Beaches And Dredged Islands

Disposable America

How To Use Bureaucracies

Martha Nussbaum: The Philosopher Queen

Alibaba V. Tencent: The Battle For Supremacy In China

How Technology and Smarts Help Athletes Push the Limits

South Africa’s cultural game-changers—Niq Mhlongo believes book clubs are changing the literary landscape

Understanding the ‘Beautiful Game’

This Is The Netflix Exec To Thank For Your Wild Wild Country Binge

Take a Look at Him Now: The Many Lives of Phil Collins

A Mighty Wind

Bach At The Burger King

How China’s 36th-Best Car Company Saved Volvo

Own Goal: The Inside Story of How the USMNT Missed the 2018 World Cup

The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations

This Boy From Mumbai Became the World’s Unlikeliest Crossword King

Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto, We’ve Been Doing It For Ages

The Tipping Point When Minority Views Take Over

Black (beyond negation) – The New Inquiry

Dead Man Rising

The Spectacular Power Of Big Lens

The Strange History of the “King-Pine”

Why no one answers the phone anymore

The placebo effect’s role in healing, explained

The reporter who took down a unicorn

Treadmills were meant to be atonement machines

Masters 2018: The green jacket dry-cleaning secrets of Augusta National

Blind Spot

What Of The Lowly Page Number

The Ridiculous Saga Of Lance Armstrong, The Cheater Who Became An Enemy Of The State

This amazing tiny animal has sex for an hour. Yes, there's video

Human evolutionA group of people with an amphibious life have evolved traits to match

The Great High School Impostor

“Organization Don’t Mean Shit”: Inside The Beginning Of The End Of The Clinton Campaign

Nyayo House - unravelling the architecture and aesthetics of torture

Redemption of a Lost Prodigy

Erika Alexander On the Legend of Maxine Shaw, Living Single, and Her Buffy Spinoff Comic

My Bright-lights Misadventure With A Magician Of Manhattan

Inside the world of instruction manuals

The tyranny of convenience

What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Is the Unsung Godmother of American Food Writing

Why We Forget Most Of The Books We Read

The Amazing Story of the Russian Defector Who Changed his Mind

How laundry gets done at the Olympics

An Interview with Jonathan Gold

Tracing the Roots of Benga Music

How The Apple Took Over The Planet

Davis Beckham: Remember How Good he was at Football?

Jagged Little (Blue) Pill

Against the Grain

Pretending To Be Okay

Diddy Opens Up About Biggie’s Death And The Secret Project He’s Working On With Jay-z

Les Wexner, the man behind Victoria’s Secret

Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself.

Pinball Machine Parts - The Anatomy of Pinball

How the Shape of Your Ears Affects What You Hear

Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals

Black Pearl

How One Child’s Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria

Feeling Guilty About Drinking? Well, Ask The Saints

The Multibillion-Dollar Corporation Controlled by a Penniless Yoga Superstar

How Russia's Eternal President Has Changed His Country

Small Talk

The Peach Was A Sex Object Long Before 'call Me By Your Name'

Field Marshall Muthoni, the woman.

Notes on being very tall

Local links run the world

For elites, politics is driven by ideology. For voters, it’s not.

Finding Rhapta, East Africa's lost Roman City

How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor

I have forgotten how to read

Operation Red Falcon

On Not Fitting In: An Interview with Yemisi Aribisala

New Orleans, LA Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather

How to Raise a Prodigy

If I Can’t Cry, Nobody Cries: An Interview With Tayari Jones

Dressing for Two

How Arafat eluded Israel's assassination machine

Charisma and Representation

How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding

Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary

My Inheritance Was My Father’s Last Lesson To Me, And I Am Still Learning It

Marvin Gaye's abiding unrest

An Intimate History of America

The Things That Come To Those Who Wait

The Great Attention Heist

How to Be Lucky

The man who drove Malcolm X around and introduced him to Fidel Castro

The Reputation Game: How To Control The Way We Appear In The Eyes Of Others

I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore.

The Encyclopedia of the Missing

Two Encounters with Poison: Becoming a Doctor in Nigeria

The real Spectre

Are Gps Apps Messing With Our Brains?

Improving Ourselves to Death

The strange brands in your Instagram feed

Zora Neale Hurston: “A Genius of the South”

When the Devil Enters

The Extraordinary Life Of Nikola Tesla

The Secret Life of 'Um'

My secondhand lonely