Love and Loss in a Small Texas Town
On the deadly explosion in West, Texas.
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
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.
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid, Holger Stark, Jonathan Stock Der Spiegel English Jul 2013 15min Permalink
How to photograph Los Angeles from a helicopter.
Michael Light, Lawrence Weschler The Believer Nov 2010 20min Permalink
On the sins of the lazy translator.
Vladimir Nabokov The New Republic Aug 1941 10min Permalink
A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.
David Samuels Wired Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Why three young undocumented activists intentionally got themselves detained.
Michael May The American Prospect Jun 2013 35min Permalink
On Japan’s Hokkaido, an island the size of Ireland, and its rebel leader of lore, Shakushain.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Listening to music in prison.
David Peisner Spin May 2013 10min Permalink
Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, discusses "The Oilman's Daughter," his new story in The Atavist.
"This woman was given the opportunity to take on a new identity. And it was a mistake. She never should've done it. If there was a way for her to go back and say, 'No, I don't want to know this. I want to be who I am,' then I think she should've taken that. … I'm fascinated with people who want to radically shift their identity. It almost never works out well."
Jun 2013 Permalink
What good can come of tragedy.
Mark Obbie Pacific Standard Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Jun 2013 1h45min Permalink
The controversial history of WI-38, a cell strain created from an aborted fetus “that has arguably helped to save more lives than any other created by researchers.”
Meredith Wadman Nature Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The plight of temporary workers in America.
Michael Grabell ProPublica Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.
Amy Chozick New York Times Magazine Jun 2013 20min Permalink
An interview with Rick Rubin.
Andrew Romano Newsweek Jun 2013 20min Permalink
“Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke and defended the most important story of 2013, he was many other things: an underage South Florida politician, a lawyer at a high-powered corporate firm, Kips Bay’s most combative tenant, and even the legal arm of his business partner’s gay porn distribution company.”
Jessica Testa Buzzfeed Jun 2013 10min Permalink
How Russia consistently undermines the U.N. in order to keep a multi-billion dollar monopoly on the sales of helicopters and airplanes.
Colum Lynch Foreign Policy Jun 2013 10min Permalink
Steve Kandell is the longform editor at BuzzFeed.
"What would be the sort of longer, narrative nonfiction, journalistic equivalent of something that would have the same effect on you as a bunch of cat GIFs? And not because it's cute, but it's the kind of thing that makes you go, 'OK, I need a lot of other people to see this.'"
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