Bullfighting, Sport and Industry
“Formal bullfighting is an art, a tragedy, and a business. To what extent it is an art depends on the bulls and the men who are hired to kill them, but it is always a tragedy and it is always a business.”
Robert Capa’s Longest Day
How the famed war photographer covered D-Day.
‘So Jayson Blair Could Live, The Journalist Had to Die’
The first profile of the disgraced journalist.
Changing Times
A profile of Jill Abramson from her first weeks as executive editor of The New York Times.
Leslie Jamison has written for The Believer, Harper's and The New York Times. Her latest book is The Empathy Exams.
"I sort of love imagining a small army of 22-year-old men who are just like, 'Fuck that book, I wish it was never published.'"
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The Devil's Bait
Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.
West Wing Uncensored
An oral history.
Big Water
The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry.
The Long Ride to Riyadh
Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.
On A Norwegian Tragedy and 2083: A European Declaration of Independence
The writings of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik are a copy-and-paste hodgepodge of “jeremiads against the scourge of cultural theory, lists of atrocities perpetuated by Muslims, and pages of derision of ‘female sluts,’ but also Wikipedia articles about sugar beet farming and investment tips.”
The Undefeated Champions of Defeat City
A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.
The Cello Courier
Transporting an instrument after a death in the family.
This American Refused to Become an FBI Informant. Then the Government Made His Family's Life Hell.
The saga of Naji Mansour.
Schooled
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
'The Fight's Over, Joe'
Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 20 years after their final fight.
How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company
Will Vinton created the California Raisins, coined the term “claymation” and had a firm making $28 million a year in the late 1990s. By 2002, he was out of a job, replaced by a failed rapper who had gone by the name “Chilly Tee” and also happened to be the son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
An interview with Miley Cyrus.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Non Stop Beautiful Ladies"
A young woman with a rare condition navigates El Paso.
How Thailand's Most Notorious Prison Became a Fight Club
The Muay Thai fighters of Klong Prem.
President Chill
A profile of Uruguay President José Mujica, a former revolutionary who’s been shot six times, was imprisoned for 14 years and, since taking office, has shunned the presidential mansion in favor of a small farm while legalizing gay marriage, abortion and marijuana.
Addict. Informant. Mother.
"Caught between the dealers and the cops in Hazleton, Pa., is a woman with a bad habit."
Previously: Susan Dominus on the Longform Podcast.
Missing in the Mediterranean
On the search for migrants lost at sea and the families left behind.
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The Essays That Made Gloria Steinem an Icon
Posing as a Playboy bunny. Deconstructing porn. Examining the myth of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Gloria Steinem, who turned 80 in March, has always been a fearless writer. And nowhere is that more clear than in her timeless essay collection, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.
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The $13 Billion Mystery Angels
The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.
The Conspiracists: The Reichstag Fire
How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.
