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On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

A filmmaker goes to court to fight the television commercial break.

Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive—and perhaps of all time—back away from his art to open a construction business?

Previously: Jason Fagone on the Longform Podcast.

On the coach’s battle with retirement.

How Korean immigrants in L.A. revolutionized fashion’s production cycle.

“With the rise of factory farming, milk is now a most unnatural operation.”

The Giants' miraculous 1951 comeback wasn't all that it seemed.

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A son interviews his mother about language and love in the South.

Why we love repetition in music.

The unmuzzling of Canadian journalism.

A story of boom and bust.

A mother defends her family lineage against disruption from envious cousins.

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Notes from a month-long voyage on a massive container ship.

Three Americans are held hostage in Iran for two years, much of it spent in solitary confinement.

Searching for the mysterious tree kangaroo in one of the most remote places on Earth.

Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.

The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.

An essay on the service economy.

The environmental artist on massive budgets, wrapping the Reichstag, and working alone.

The story of “the biggest retail hack in U.S. history.”

“There was this brief moment when people who wrote blogs also cared about so-called literary fiction. Now it seems they’ve moved on. My doctor doesn’t give a fuck.”

On the campaign trail with Florida’s malleable ex-governor.

On the burrneshas of Albania.