427: Ten Years Without Jen, Twenty-Six With
Life after losing your partner.
A Leak Wounded This Company. Fighting the Feds Finished It Off.
The Federal Trade Commission has brought more than 60 cases related to data security against businesses. Only one has refused to settle.
Fraying at the Edges
One woman’s hunt for possibility after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Best Article Crime History Science
Inhaling the Spore
A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.
Business Crime Politics Tech World
Fear This Man
David Vincenzetti says his company, which sells spyware to world’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies, is helping to thwart terrorism. Others say it’s a danger to citizens, dissidents, and journalists alike.
The 2016 James Beard Award Winners
The South's favorite food critic, the investigation that helped free the slaves that peel your shrimp, and the enduring magic of chicken tenders — a collection of the food writing honored at this week's James Beard Awards. (Photo: Garrett Ziegler)
Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, discusses "The Mastermind,” his new 7-part serialized story in The Atavist Magazine.
“On several occasions [sources] didn’t want to go into the details of how they were identified. They were just like, ‘My safety is in your hands. Just be careful.’ And I didn’t really know what to do with that. I was sort of trying to balance what to include and what not to include and trying to make these decisions. Will Paul Le Roux know it’s this person? It’s impossible to know. I tried to err on the side of caution, but there’s no ethics hotline you can call and be like, ‘What do I do in this situation?’”
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A Positive Life
Twenty-four years ago, a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But even more astonishing is the life the son turned out to live.
Madness
The horror of being mentally ill in Florida’s prisons.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Returning"
A woman's dead father appears at a farmer's market.
The Mastermind
Paul Le Roux could have been Mark Zuckerberg. Instead he became a 21st century John Gotti, running a massive criminal empire from his computer until he became an asset of the United States government.
A 7-part serialized story, written by Longform Podcast co-host Evan Ratliff.
The Faithful
What happened when two guys set out to convert their Colombian megachurch to Orthodox Judaism.
Jenny Diski, 1947-2016
Novelist and essayist Jenny Diski died this morning. She had been writing a diary for the London Review of Books about her inoperable cancer. Her memoir, In Gratitude, was released last week. Browse our archive of her work, her complete LRB archive, and last year's profile of Diski in the New York Times Magazine.
How Uber Conquered London
There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.
Susie Cagle is a journalist and illustrator.
“I don’t really know what it was that made me not quit. I still kind of wonder that. There have been many times over the last couple of years even, as things are taking off in my career, things are going well, I’m writing about wonderful things that are interesting to me, and I still wonder—should I be doing this? What the hell is next year gonna look like?”
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The House That Thurman Munson Built
The life, death, and ghost of a catcher.
Ride Along With the Cow Police
Texas’ modern day cattle rustlers and the twenty-seven lawmen who track them.
Why America Is Ready for Novelist Angela Flournoy
Riding through Detroit with the author of The Turner House.
Hot Mess
How 2-minute noodles became a half-billion dollar debacle for Nestlé in India.
Uncanny Valley
Living and working in the tech world.
A Boy of Unusual Vision
Calvin Stanley is a fourth-grader at Cross Country Elementary School. He rides a bike, watches TV, plays video games and does just about everything other 10-year-old boys do. Except see.
When Bitcoin Grows Up
Money is an idea that we all agree to believe in.
The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans
“Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.”
The Massive Land Deal That Could Change the West Forever
In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.
Iceland’s Water Cure
Happiness is a warm pool.
