Death of a Building
A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.
Hard Knocks: Shanghai
The NFL attempts to set up a beachhead in China.
The Biggest Week in Bourbontown
An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.
James Baldwin: The Art of Fiction No. 78
“No one works better out of anguish at all; that’s an incredible literary conceit.”
New on Longform Fiction
Every weekday, our editors recommend one short story from across the web on Longform Fiction. Three picks from this week:
Mexican Manifesto
Roberto Bolaño • New Yorker
A series of mysterious, dangerous interactions in a Mexican bathhouse.
Babushka
Sarah Gentile • Vol. 1 Brooklyn
A baby born in New Jersey grows and takes on the characteristics of a headstrong Russian woman.
Stan's Report
Glen Pourciau • AGNI
Tension between two co-workers turns into a complicated game of lies and intentions.
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Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco
Creation of a fast food phenomenon.
Escape
Meet Krystal Ryan. She left her abusive husband.
2013 National Magazine Awards Winners
Trasmissions from Camp Trans
The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.
First Do No Harm
How OxyContin permeated one small town.
Our Radical Future: Cults, Utopias and Rebellions of the 1890s
On the holy city of Canudos, and other attempts at better living “by the dispossessed and marginalized the world over.”
The Killings in Kaufman
A legal battle over stolen computer monitors ends one man’s career and the lives of three others.
The Night New York Avoided a Riot
In the days following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, more than 100 cities experienced significant civil disturbance. In New York, everyone expected riots. What happened next.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper has written for GQ, Spin and BuzzFeed.
"Writing is the worst part of this gig for me. I hate sitting down and writing; it's being with my worst self. … But then, when it's over, it's the best. I have no greater joy than reading what I've published—with the exception of some editors who have fucked up my shit."</i>
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The Driver
On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.
Tangled Up in Blue
The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.
The Devil in George Jones
A profile of the country music legend.
The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Excerpts from the once-classified journals of a current prisoner.
The Prophets of Oak Ridge
The story of three peace activists — a drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter — who penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States.
In Virginia's Fairfax County, Robbing Banks for the CIA
A captured bank robber makes a remarkable claim.
Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.
“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.
Bring Up the Bodies
Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?
102 Hours in Pursuit of Marathon Bombing Suspects
The story of the manhunt.
The Mind of a Con Man
How social psychologist Diederik Stapel committed and rationalized an audacious academic fraud, and what his lies reveal about the culture of scientific research.
