The Big Sleep
How medically induced hypothermia could save lives.
All the Kings' Men
An oral history of the 2002 Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings.
Previously: Jonathan Abrams on the Longform Podcast.
A Death in the Texas Desert
On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.
Michael Lewis has written for The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine. His latest book is Flash Boys.
“When you're telling a story, you're essentially playing the cards you're dealt. ... Sometimes the hand is very easy to play. Sometimes the hand is difficult to play. At the end, I just try to think, ‘Is there anything I would have done differently?‘ ‘Is there any trick I missed?’ If I don't have the feeling that I missed something big, I feel happy about the book.”
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Boko Haram: Sons of Anarchy
In northern Nigeria, radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is facing a vigilante backlash from armed teenagers with nothing to lose.
Masala Dosa to Die For
How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
A cancer doctor on losing his wife to cancer.
Confidentially Yours
A history of the celebrity profile.
Shadow Campus
An investigation into Boston’s off-campus housing.
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A House Jammed with Students, a Life of Promise Lost
The fire that killed a Boston University student in a house filled with 13 other people and only one exit.
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Overcrowded and at Risk: A Way of Life, and Sometimes, Death for Student Tenants
Examining the laws around off-campus housing and their lack of enforcement.
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A Devastating Mismatch: City vs. Scofflaw Landlords
How the giants in the student rental trade do business.
Radio Killed the Political Star
“Successful brand identities in the House and on talk radio have never before relied on such similar skill sets — there has never been so much politics in media, and media in politics.”
Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction
Getting clean with a three-day trip.
Previously: The Longform Guide to Addiction.
The End of Food
The story of Soylent, a Silicon Valley concoction designed to replace your meals.
Hell Is an Understatement
A dispatch from the Central African Republic.
Man About Town
A profile of rapper Bun B, “the unofficial mayor of Houston.”
Why Would a Gay Teenager Commit Hate Crimes Against Herself?
Revisiting a high school hoax.
A Captivating Mind
The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Naturals"
A son goes to visit his dying father.
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Rwanda's Hunted
An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.
Lorrie Moore: The Art of Fiction No. 167
“A story is a kind of biopsy of human life.”
The Great Works of Software
In appreciation of meaningful, ubiquitous, enduring applications.
Previously: Paul Ford on the Longform Podcast.
The 2014 National Magazine Award Winners
The Short Flight Of El Pájaro
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.
On the Brink in Brownsville
Shamir is 15, bored and broke and balancing right on the edge.
How to Lose $100 Million
The undoing of Tina Brown.
Ecstatic States
Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?
