Longform

His sprawling, confessional essay about spending more than $600,000 on expensive, and often bizarre, leather clothing.

Before the show, before the movie, there was Bissinger’s tale of the 1988 Permian Panther football team and the small West Texas city of Odessa, where he lived with a family for a year.

The story of eight gay men in Texas murdered by teenage boys.

At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind, regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories.

After one of the most decisive wins in Kentucky Derby history, Barbaro broke his leg at the Preakness, ending a promising career and beginning a herculean effort to save his life.

On the retaliation ethics of baseball.

A profile of Bissinger as he returned to his old stomping grounds, the Philadelphia Inquirer.