Mount Impossible: How a Disabled Veteran Conquered Kilimanjaro
Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.
Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the ’80s
The fabled venue where the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Prince emerged.
I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love
“A paean 2 Prince.”
Unfriendly Climate
Katharine Hayhoe is one of the country’s most influential atmospheric scientists, spreading the word about the effects of climate change. She’s also an evangelical Christian.
The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof.
The writer returns to his remote North Dakota hometown’s high school, then isolated with a graduating class of only 28, now even smaller but connected by the internet.
The Silence Is Broken
A conversation with Prince.
The Secret History of Tiger Woods
The golfer at his nadir.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Plans"
Dolls and complicated gender dynamics.
Even Sex Goddesses Get the Blues
The Cosmo editor and author of Sex and the Single Girl’s rocky real-life relationships.
Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard. He writes at Idle Words.
“My natural contrarianism makes me want to see if I can do something long-term in an industry where everything either changes until it's unrecognizable or gets sold or collapses. I like the idea of things on the web being persistent. And more basically, I reject this idea that everything has to be on a really short time scale just because it involves technology. We’ve had these computers around for a while now. It’s time we start treating them like everything else in our lives, where it kind of lives on the same time scale that we do and doesn’t completely fall off the end of the world every three or four years.”
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The Longform Guide to Sleep
The nightmare of insomnia, the secret of slumber, and the search for the next Ambien — our favorite articles about sleep, presented by Casper.
Thanks to Casper for sponsoring Longform. Get an obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price right here.
Chicago After Laquan McDonald
The activists fighting for police reform in the wake of a video that showed a black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop.
Offshore in Central London
Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?
How Lifetime Became One Of The Best Places In Hollywood For Women
A history of the women’s television channel and its push to employ female writers and directors long before it became an issue in Hollywood.
S. Korea Covered Up Mass Abuse, Killings of 'Vagrants'
How the government cleared the streets in advance of the 1988 Olympics.
The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup
In a nondescript office park in suburban Florida, a company you’ve never heard of is making a product that few people have ever seen. And it has $1.4 billion in funding.
The Rise and Fall of Rafael Palmeiro
Rafael Palmeiro was a surefire Hall of Famer before a positive steroids test derailed everything. He retired a few months later, quietly sent home early by the team that had been planning to celebrate him. Next came depression and a $53 million business deal gone bust.
The Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker
“The tragedy of Dorothy Parker, it seems to me, isn’t that she succumbed to alcoholism or died essentially alone. It was that she was too intelligent to believe that she had made the most of herself.”
The Longform Guide to Running
Champions, record-breakers, frauds, and underdogs — our favorite articles about runners.
The Godmother of Soul
A profile of Erykah Badu.
The Johnny and Tara Show Is the Main Event
Can Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski make the casual audience care about figure skating?
“The Shame Sticks to You Like Tar”
A conversation with Monica Lewinsky about bullying, humiliation, and resurrection.
Previously: Jon Ronson on the Longform Podcast and “Shame and Survival,” Lewinsky’s 2014 essay for Vanity Fair.
Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real? And If Not, Why Are People Killing Themselves Over It?
Patients say it feels like they’re drowning. Doctors say there’s nothing wrong. One thing is certain: medical professionals are finding they may not know as much about the nose as they’d thought.
The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune
It involves a former 1960s bondage film actress, a Jewish neo-Nazi, the husband of the speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and a whole lot of creative marketing.
Immediate Family
A profile of author Maggie Nelson.
