40 Minutes in Benghazi
The story of the attack that killed U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, told from the persepctive of the security agents there to protect him.
In Rural Tennessee, a New Way to Help Hungry Children: A Bus Turned Bread Truck
Riding along on the Lunch Express.
John Wayne: A Love Song
On set in Mexico with the Duke.
Open Waters
Encounters with the sea.
Manhattan Fold ’Em
How a high-stakes poker game that started at Tobey Maguire’s house became part of a $100 million gambling and money-laundering operation orchestrated by the Russian mob.
Reflections on Violence
“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”
The Endless Summer Of Bob Uecker
Nine innings with Mr. Baseball.
Female Workers Face Rape, Harassment in U.S. Agriculture Industry
The dangerous work of harvesting your food.
Bash Your Neighbor Like It's 1300 A.D.
The author participates in the Society for Creative Anachronism’s “Crown Lyst, the twice-yearly event when knights will battle with ancient weapons and the victor will be named the new king.”
Where Did the Hockey Millions Go?
How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.
How to Win in Washington
The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.
Building New York's Subway
“Morning and night the hordes of clerks and stenographers and business men who fill the offices of down-town New York have poured across Newspaper Row and City Hall Park with scarcely a glance at the labor progressing underfoot that is going to bring them so many minutes nearer their work in the morning, and at night so many minutes nearer their play.”
An Oral History of the March on Washington
A pivotal Civil Rights rally recalled, 50 years later.
The World Ends With a Handshake: Unraveling the Apocalypse of 'Southland Tales'
A Southland Tales fanboy goes down the rabbit hole with the movie’s director.
The Letter
How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.
Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.
Yrs. Truly, A Lincoln
On the grifter who made a living forging the signatures of American heroes.
Love and Loss in a Small Texas Town
On the deadly explosion in West, Texas.
In the Line of Wildfire
Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero
After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.
A Literary History of the San Andreas Fault: Bolinas
On the writers, poets and beats in a reclusive California town, where residents repeatedly tear down highway signs indicating its location.
The Marineland Dreamland
On disposing of a dead sea lion, and the pitfalls of memory.
Liquid City
The weird history and uncertain future of New York City’s shoreline.
Buried Secrets
How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.
The Call of Battle
After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.
How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe
Countries that the NSA has defined as close friends, or “2nd party,” include the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. These countries, documents indicate, cannot targetted. “3rd Party” nations, like Germany, are offered no such protection and spying all the way up to the office of the Chancellor is suspected.
