“Why Did You Shoot Me? I Was Reading a Book”
On the militarization of America’s police forces.
On the militarization of America’s police forces.
Radley Balko Salon Jul 2013 Permalink
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.
Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz Vanity Fair Aug 2013 30min Permalink
Riding along on the Lunch Express.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jul 2013 10min Permalink
On set in Mexico with the Duke.
Joan Didion The Saturday Evening Post Aug 1965 10min Permalink
Encounters with the sea.
Simon Winchester Lapham's Quarterly Jul 2013 Permalink
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.
Robert Kolker New York Jun 2013 20min Permalink
“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”
Hannah Arendt New York Review of Books Feb 1969 45min Permalink
Nine innings with Mr. Baseball.
Luke Winn Sports Illustrated Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The dangerous work of harvesting your food.
Bernice Yeung, Grace Rubenstein Center for Investigative Reporting Jun 2013 25min Permalink
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.”
Kyle Swenson New Times Broward-Palm Beach Jul 2013 20min Permalink
How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.
Katie Benner Fortune Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.
Mark Leibovich New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
“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.”
Arthur Ruhl Century Magazine Oct 1902 25min Permalink
A pivotal Civil Rights rally recalled, 50 years later.
A Southland Tales fanboy goes down the rabbit hole with the movie’s director.
Abraham Riesman Motherboard Jul 2013 25min Permalink
How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.
Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.
Elon Green The Awl Jul 2013 15min Permalink
On the grifter who made a living forging the signatures of American heroes.
John Kobler The New Yorker Feb 1956 50min Permalink
On the deadly explosion in West, Texas.
Zac Crain D Magazine Jul 2013 Permalink
Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.
Kyle Dickman Outside Jun 2013 20min Permalink
After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.
Clay Tarver New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 Permalink
On the writers, poets and beats in a reclusive California town, where residents repeatedly tear down highway signs indicating its location.
Kevin Opstedal Jack Magazine Nov 2001 25min Permalink
On disposing of a dead sea lion, and the pitfalls of memory.
Craig Davidson The Walrus Jul 2013 20min Permalink
The weird history and uncertain future of New York City’s shoreline.
Justin Davidson New York Jul 2013 15min Permalink
How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Jul 2013 45min Permalink
After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.
Matt Cook Texas Monthly Jul 2013 35min Permalink