Invisible, Inc.
Did Thomas Pynchon write a series of letters to Northern California newspapers under the pseudonym “Wanda Tinasky”?
"It seems to me that I am more to the left than you, Mr. Stalin."
An interview with Joseph Stalin.
No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush
The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.
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Alice Gregory has written for GQ, The New York Times, n+1 and Harper's.
"If you don't have a real story with a beginning, middle and an end, you owe it to the reader to kind of serve as their chaperone."
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What Michael Did
Twelve years ago, Michael Stewart killed his mother during a psychotic episode. How he and his family are coping today.
The Pope in the Attic: Benedict in the Time of Francis
The first living ex-pope in 600 years watches as the successor he enabled dismantles his legacy.
Behind the Beanie Babies: The Secret Life of Ty Warner
A profile of the reclusive billionaire who orchestrated a collectible toy craze.
Blow Up the Box
An interview with Barry Diller about Aereo and the past, present and future of TV.
Previously: Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Longform Podcast.
The Mind Readers
The scientists working to free those trapped between life and death.
Give Me the Gun
Why some immigrants can never escape their parents’ battles.
The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back
On the fast food workers of St. Louis.
What We Left Behind
On the future of Iraq.
A Polar Turn of Mind
Finding peace and quiet in the high Canadian Arctic.
Previously: The Longform Guide to Silence.
True to His Words
The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s exoneration.
"Ugh. I Miss It."
One man's transition from military to civilian life.
Previously: Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast.
The Cheerleaders
A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
On the appearance of an angel.
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The Bill Watterson Interview
A conversation with the author of Calvin and Hobbes.
Bonfire of the Humanities
Investigating the burning of ancient books by rebels in Timbuktu.
The Death of Rodríguez
An execution in war-torn Cuba.
High Tech
On Silicon Valley's newfound interest in the weed business.
Previously: Mat Honan on the Longform Podcast.
Year of the Pigskin
A season with the American Football League of China.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Art of Fiction No. 69
“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.”
The Case of the Closely Watched Courtesans
Why 18th-century French police obsessively tracked elite sex workers.
Segregation Now
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, Southern schools have been resegregated.
