Fort Bragg's Deadly Summer
Looking for answers following a mysterious string of slayings and suicides at the base.
The Making of The Chronic
An oral history of the Dr. Dre album.
A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain
A profile of photographer Richard Avedon from early in his career.
The Tunnels of Gaza
Life and death in an underground economy.
Joshua Davis is a contributing editor at Wired and author of the new ebook John McAfee's Last Stand.
"This is a pretty unique situation [for me]. Never has a multimillionaire tech pioneer gone on the lam for a murder and called me from hiding. Yeah, this is a first."
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A Mind Dismembered
On the history of Nigerian penis theft.
In Conversation: Tina Brown
A wide-ranging chat with the magazine editor.
The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder
Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.
The Nick Paumgarten Archive
Elevators, online dating and the mind behind Super Mario Bros. — Paumgarten on Longform.
Deadhead
The Grateful Dead’s afterlife.
They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
How a small group academics revealed an ancient order of opthamologists.
Interview: Yayoi Kusama
An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.
Tunnel Vision
The story of an avalanche, as told by a survivor.
The Fourth State of Matter
A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.
The Markovian Parallax Denigrate: Unraveling the Internet’s Oldest and Weirdest mystery
How conspiracy theory links the internet’s first spam (a series of randomly generated words with the subject line Markovian Parallax Denigrate) with a woman who posed as a CIA agent and was convicted of receiving funds from Saddam Hussein’s government.
When the Nerds Go Marching In
How a team of 40 engineers helped reelect Barack Obama.
A Mormon Reporter On The Romney Bus
Memoir of a Latter-day campaign correspondent.
Forever After: A Warrior Wounded, a Family Challenged
Army Spc. Erik Schei was shot in the head in Iraq. This is the story of his recovery.
The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly
Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”
Last Champions of the Third Reich
The story of the 1944 German national soccer championship game.
Pamela Colloff is an executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly.
"There are many, many people who write and they have tragic stories, but they're not necessarily compelling magazine articles. Figuring out what is a compelling magazine article and what isn't is one of the more painful things about this. You can't look into every case. But your job is to be a storyteller."
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The Last Laughing Death
A 50-year medical riddle in Papua New Guinea and the man who made solving it his life’s work.
GOING SOUTERRAIN
Exploring Paris’s parallel universe of tunnels, caverns and catacombs.
My 6,128 Favorite Books
“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find “reality” a bit of a disappointment.”
Murdering the Impossible
A profile of Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time.
