Ravi Somaiya | Bungalow

Ravi Somaiya

Ravi Somaiya

Ravi Somaiya is the founder and editor of Bungalow. He was a staff writer at Gawker, a crime reporter, international correspondent, breaking news writer and media correspondent for The New York Times, and produced and presented documentaries for Vice on HBO. He is the author of a book about the 1961 death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

RABBIT HOLES

Elizabeth Holmes was the least charismatic person imaginable

Oct 27, 2026

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3 min read

Elizabeth Holmes was the least charismatic person imaginable

So how did she rise to infamy?

RABBIT HOLES

Inside Theranos with Elizabeth Holmes

Oct 17, 2026

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9 min read

Inside Theranos with Elizabeth Holmes

Gold sinks, conspiracy theories and a documentary that never was

RABBIT HOLES

Why fish don't read

Oct 8, 2026

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1 min read

Why fish don't read

The surreal drawings of Robert McCurdy

RABBIT HOLES

The Unabomber on Donald Trump

Oct 1, 2026

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4 min read

The Unabomber on Donald Trump

Ted Kaczynski was uncomfortably prescient about modern politics

SERIES 05

How to walk in Manhattan

Jul 27, 2026

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7 min read

How to walk in Manhattan

And the unreported change that might alter it forever

SERIES 05

Measuring the Met Gala: Part 2

Jul 8, 2026

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2 min read

Measuring the Met Gala: Part 2

Do men lie more about their heights?

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Measuring the Met Gala

Jul 2, 2026

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5 min read

Measuring the Met Gala

Spoiler: celebrities are shorter than you’d think

SERIES 05

Does Trump really have short fingers?

Jun 18, 2026

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6 min read

Does Trump really have short fingers?

A forensic analysis

SERIES 05

SERIES 05: Measuring things

Jun 17, 2026

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2 min read

SERIES 05: Measuring things

The joyous rebellion of measuring things people don’t want measured

We turned algae into a magazine

May 7, 2026

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1 min read

We turned algae into a magazine

A new print thing that is not like other print things

Going Gangnam style

Apr 6, 2026

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3 min read

Going Gangnam style

What Psy taught us about publishing

SERIES 04

The experiment

Mar 29, 2026

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7 min read

The experiment

An MRI machine. An exorcism. A curse.

Inside the demonic possession

Mar 22, 2026

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8 min read

Inside the demonic possession

'The pupils of her eyes become vertical. She moves like an animal'

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Inside the demonic possession

Mar 22, 2026

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8 min read

Inside the demonic possession

'The pupils of her eyes become vertical. She moves like an animal'

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A murder ignored

Mar 15, 2026

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9 min read

A murder ignored

A shooting in Mexico City and the birth of a curse

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Can you exorcise a nation?

Mar 8, 2026

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6 min read

Can you exorcise a nation?

Before the experiment, before the curse, there was the ceremony

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The rise of the demons

Feb 25, 2026

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8 min read

The rise of the demons

Fearful societies mean demonic possession is back

SERIES 03

The purpose of a system is what it does

Jan 12, 2026

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6 min read

The purpose of a system is what it does

Manchester United, McKinsey, Britain’s NHS and the corporate culture that ate the world

SERIES 02

The bench — audio version

Dec 23, 2025

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1 min read

The bench — audio version

For journeys, and other escapes

SERIES 02

The bench — behind the story

Dec 23, 2025

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5 min read

The bench — behind the story

The audio, video and images that make up an extraordinary narrative

‘It's just a bomb’

Dec 15, 2025

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20 min read

‘It's just a bomb’

Two strangers. A terrorist bomb. An extraordinary tale of courage.

SERIES 02

The bench

Dec 15, 2025

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31 min read

The bench

Two strangers. One bomb. An extraordinary tale of courage.

SERIES 02

Sad boys

Dec 12, 2025

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7 min read

Sad boys

Why alienated and lost boys are the root of all horror, and what we can do about it

SERIES 01

The prophet of Y2K

Dec 2, 2025

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5 min read

The prophet of Y2K

The millennium bug hysteria set the parameters for modernity. But who first came up with the idea?

SERIES 01

The violent truth of penguin romance

Nov 23, 2025

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11 min read

The violent truth of penguin romance

A story so shocking that it was suppressed for a century