The Doctor, the CIA, and the Blood of Bin Laden
The disappearance of the mysterious “Pakistani asset” that helped the CIA zero in on Bin Laden.
The disappearance of the mysterious “Pakistani asset” that helped the CIA zero in on Bin Laden.
Matthieu Aikins GQ Dec 2012 25min Permalink
On joy, pleasure and Ecstacy.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Dec 2012 Permalink
A Ugandan bill that would threaten homosexuals with imprisonment, or in some cases death, has its roots in the shadowy American evangelical group known as The Family.
Jeff Sharlet Harper's Aug 2010 40min Permalink
A history of food poisoning.
Deborah Blum Lapham's Quarterly May 2011 10min Permalink
A rape case in which most of the evidence lies in the archives of Twitter and Instagram divides a football-crazed town of 18,400.
Juliet Macur, Nate Schweber New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink
A nationally respected neurologist feeds secrets to Wall Street.
Nathaniel Popper, Bill Vlasic New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink
An amateur linguist loses control of his creation.
Joshua Foer New Yorker Dec 2012 35min Permalink
On high school basketball star Chris Tang and the pressures of being the “Great Yellow Hope.”
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Dec 2012 25min Permalink
The life and times of Willie Nelson’s guitar.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Dec 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of Martin Short.
David Kamp Vanity Fair Dec 2012 25min Permalink
Ten years ago, Jack Whittaker won the largest lotto jackpot in history. Then he lost everything.
David Samuels Businessweek Dec 2012 15min Permalink
On the reality TV empire of Thom Beers, creator of Deadliest Catch.
Charles Homans New York Times Magazine Dec 2012 15min Permalink
“Oh God, everybody hates Jane Austen. They don’t have the balls to say it.”
Isaac Chotiner The New Republic Dec 2012 15min Permalink
Elegy for Aleppo.
Amal Hanano Foreign Policy Dec 2012 30min Permalink
Revisiting a 30-year-old beating death in St. Louis.
Tony D'Souza, Tom Finkel The Riverfront Times Dec 2012 Permalink
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Inside one of the biggest antiquities-smuggling rings in history.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2007 30min Permalink
On the clip that captured a society falling apart.
Chris Heath GQ Dec 2012 30min Permalink
On the internet dating pool.
Emily Witt London Review of Books Oct 2012 15min Permalink
A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.
Simon Parry The Daily Mail Dec 2012 10min Permalink
The activists, politicians, and social trends that led to 2012’s gay marriage victories.
Molly Ball The Atlantic Dec 2012 10min Permalink
A new, standalone section on Longform featuring one fiction pick per day. Edited by Jeremy Bushnell and Jamie Yates. Also available in the Longform App and on Twitter @longformfiction.
A prolific fundraiser and dean at St. John’s University, Cecilia Chang was also accused of murdering her husband and had connections to organized crime. Two days after she was convicted of stealing more than $1 million from the schoool, she took her own life.
Is Bryan Saunders a drug-inspired outsider genius, or just in need of intervention?
Jon Ronson The Guardian Nov 2012 10min Permalink
On William Cockford and his 1800s gambling hall in London, where much of the British aristocracy lost its fortune.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Nov 2012 Permalink