Tetris: Can a Cold War Classic Evolve for the Touchscreen?
The game’s past, present, and future.
The game’s past, present, and future.
Noah Davis The Verge Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The decline and fall of Cabrini-Green, Chicago’s infamous public housing development.
Ben Austen Harper's May 2012 Permalink
A 21-year-old’s audacious real estate scam and subsequent escape.
Kevin Purdy Buffalo Spree Jun 2012 25min Permalink
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A coffee shop owner finally gets to shut down his store.
Neal Pollack Chicago Reader Sep 2000 10min Permalink
On the Boston mobster’s exes.
T.J. English The Daily Beast Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The man who made millions selling counterfeit wines.
Michael Steinberger Vanity Fair Jul 2012 20min Permalink
Invented in 1899, it hasn’t been improved upon since.
Sara Goldsmith Slate May 2012 10min Permalink
The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.
Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Sep 1997 40min Permalink
On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
From Joe Paterno to coal miners, the rodeo to fruit pickers, our story picks by the GQ correspondent.
Laskas on Longform.
On the complex nature of a presidential second term and what Obama would do if he wins one.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Jun 2012 40min Permalink
I am gay. I am Mormon. I am married to a woman. I am happy every single day. My life is filled with joy. I have a wonderful sex life. And I’ve been married for ten years, and plan to be married for decades more to come to the woman of my dreams.
Shiva Ayyadurai told the world he invented email. Not everyone agreed.
Janelle Nanos Boston Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay for it.
Antonia Crane The Rumpus Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The Watergate reporters look back.
In the course of his five-and-a-half-year presidency, beginning in 1969, Nixon launched and managed five successive and overlapping wars — against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself. All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon’s: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle of his presidency.
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Washington Post Jun 2012 15min Permalink
A profile of the Hollywood star-maker behind Vanna White, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.
John H. Richardson Esquire Aug 1999 30min Permalink
An interview with John Waters.
Real life is seeing and art is looking. If you’re successful, it’s a magic trick: you take one thing, and you put it in here, and it changes in one second, and then you can never look at that thing again the same way. That is what art is to me.
Drew Daniel, John Waters Frieze Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The anatomy of a wrongful conviction in Texas.
Andrew McLemore The Williamson County Sun Oct 2011 1h10min Permalink
On the mid-sixties birth of America’s underground newspaper movement and the rise of The Realist, East Village Other, Berkeley Barb, and more.
Jacob Brackman Playboy Aug 1967 30min Permalink
The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.
Susan Berfield Businessweek Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Jun 2012 35min Permalink
On the shifting nature of time.
Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.
Eli Sanders Tablet Jun 2012 Permalink
The story of Christopher and Jeffrey George, the twin proprietors of a pain clinic empire.
Felix Gillette Businessweek Jun 2012 15min Permalink