Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Naturals"
A son goes to visit his dying father.
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A son goes to visit his dying father.
For a daily short story recommendation from our editors, try Longform Fiction or follow @longformfiction on Twitter.
Sam Lipsyte New Yorker May 2014 20min Permalink
An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.
Geoffrey York, Judi Rever The Globe and Mail May 2014 20min Permalink
“A story is a kind of biopsy of human life.”
Elizabeth Gaffney, Lorrie Moore The Paris Review Jun 2001 35min Permalink
In appreciation of meaningful, ubiquitous, enduring applications.
Previously: Paul Ford on the Longform Podcast.
Along for the ride with a boatload of refugees risking their lives.
The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.
Heartbreak at the edge of the earth.
Ariel Levy New Yorker 15min
“Oh, my God. This is going to be a huge one.”
“Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia? Nobody. Nobody could have expected it, or be expecting it. It’s a surprise, to us all. The Embassy of Cambodia!”
Zadie Smith New Yorker 35min
Why medical bills are killing us. [sub req’d]
On May 16, 1913, after he’d spent years earning a chance at American stardom, Canary Islander shortstop Alfredo Cabrera played his one and only Major League Baseball game.
Erik Malinowski Buzzfeed May 2013 20min Permalink
Shamir is 15, bored and broke and balancing right on the edge.
Mosi Secret New York Times Magazine May 2014 20min Permalink
The undoing of Tina Brown.
Luke O'Brien Politico Magazine May 2014 30min Permalink
Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?
Lessley Anderson The Verge Apr 2014 Permalink
</h2>The voting booth, the jury box, the bench and the chair — a collection of picks on all sides of capital punishmet.
Some passions are more dangerous than others.
Wendy Brenner Oxford American Dec 2005 20min Permalink
Susan Dominus is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine.
"A lot of reporting is really just hanging around and not going home until something interesting happens."
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Apr 2014 Permalink
A tour with the Stones, an appearance on The Munsters, and a song about “how Boston is a shit hole.”
Legs McNeil Vice Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Inside Atlanta’s 80s-era queer underground.
The controversy-filled world of shipping pallets.
Jacob Hodes Cabinet Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.
Jerry Adler Pacific Standard May 2014 20min Permalink
Policing Tottenham Hotspur fans.
David Peisner Buzzfeed Apr 2014 30min Permalink
At a high-profile Libertarian conference, everyone agrees government should be smaller, but what should replace it is much more contested.
Livia Gershon Aeon Apr 2014 15min Permalink
“Which is how, despite the drinking, the stealing, the racist outburst, the abysmal courtroom performance, the disbarment, and the ultimate imprisonment of his lead attorney, an intellectually disabled man has ended up on the verge of execution.”
Marc Bookman Mother Jones Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.
Spencer Hall SB Nation Apr 2014 30min Permalink
A cross-country drive with Michael O'Donoghue, the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Previously: The Longform Guide to SNL.
Paul Slansky Playboy Mar 1983 Permalink
A reclusive hacker wages a shadow war against payday loan cyber-extortioners.
Danny Bradbury Matter Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A young writer grows up with Alice Munro.
Cheryl Strayed The Missouri Review Jun 2009 15min Permalink
A profile of the Los Angeles Clippers owner, an oft-sued real estate baron with a documented racist streak and a penchant for heckling his own players, on the occasion of him winning an NAACP lifetime achievement award.
Peter Keating ESPN Jun 2009 20min Permalink
Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Alexander Nazaryan Newsweek Apr 2014 Permalink