Peter Matthiessen’s Homegoing
Stolen time with the writer as he neared the end.
Stolen time with the writer as he neared the end.
Jeff Himmelman New York Times Magazine Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Following the hunters and poachers, servers and saviors of the little-known pangolin—a scaly, endangered creature sold by the thousands on the black market.
John D. Sutter CNN Apr 2014 45min Permalink
The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.
Carmen Bugan BBC Apr 2014 15min Permalink
An addict navigates 1980s Detroit.
Matt Sailor The Collapsar Mar 2014 40min Permalink
On Michael Jackson’s talent.
John Jeremiah Sullivan GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink
A teenager orchestrates his own attempted murder via an Internet chatroom.
Judy Bachrach Vanity Fair Feb 2005 30min Permalink
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An investigation into the ill-fated text messaging platform ZunZuneo.
Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum, Alberto Arce AP Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”
David Amsden Rolling Stone Apr 2014 25min Permalink
“Every Sunday at my house … we watched The Ed Sullivan Show…. Whether we enjoyed it or not. That was my first lesson in show business. I don’t think anybody in the house particularly enjoyed it. We just watched it. Maybe that’s the purpose of television. You just turn it on and watch it whether you want to or not.”
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Mar 2010 30min Permalink
The case against Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel.
Seymour Hersh New Yorker Jan 1999 25min Permalink
How do you sell a $3000 vacuum?
Mike Riggs The Awl Nov 2010 25min Permalink
The cheerleader who sued the Raiders for failure to pay minimum wage.
Amanda Hess ESPN the Magazine Apr 2014 15min Permalink
The secretive group that owns the venerable magazine.
Ben Dooley Mother Jones May 2014 15min Permalink
The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.
Michael Graff Washingtonian Apr 2014 30min Permalink
Mattathias Schwartz has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's.
"I figure it's like digging through a wall with a spoon: if you spend enough time at it eventually you get to the other side."
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At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.
Mattathias Schwartz Harper's Jan 2010 30min Permalink
The story of a very bad basketball team.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Mar 2014 Permalink
Bonobos are celebrated as peace-loving, matriarchal, and sexually liberated. Are they?
Ian Parker The New Yorker Jul 2007 45min Permalink
“Unfortunately, after having spent 33 hours over the course of a year interviewing Mr. Rumsfeld, I fear I know less about the origins of the Iraq war than when I started.”
Errol Morris New York Times Mar 2014 50min Permalink
A profile of Pamela Anderson.
Jessica Pressler Elle Mar 2014 20min Permalink
Over the last several years, millions of dollars worth of antique rhino horns have been stolen form collections around the world. The only thing more unusual than the crimes is the theory about who is responsible: A handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.
Charles Homans The Atavist Magazine Mar 2014 1h15min Permalink
On the life and death of Avonte Oquendo, a 14-year-old autistic boy who disappeared in October after walking out of his New York City school.
Previously: Robert Kolker on the Longform Podcast.
Robert Kolker New York Mar 2014 20min Permalink
A mid-career profile of Johnny Cash.
Saul Braun Playboy Nov 1970 35min Permalink
How Brad Katsuyama, a trader at the sleepy Royal Bank of Canada, discovered that the stock market was rigged and assembled a team to change it.
Adapted from Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Mar 2014 45min Permalink