A Constant Feeling of Crisis
What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.
What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.
Max Chafkin Inc. May 2011 20min Permalink
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On Colombia’s “macabre alliance”:
In February 2003, the mayor of a small town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast stood up at a nationally televised meeting with then President Álvaro Uribe and announced his own murder.
Daniel Wilkinson New York Review of Books Jun 2011 15min Permalink
On the evolving design and industrialization of the American outdoors.
Martin Hogue Places Journal May 2011 25min Permalink
Timothy Brown was diagnosed with HIV in the ’90s. In 2006, he found that a new, unrelated disease threatened his life: leukemia. After chemo failed, doctors resorted to a bone marrow transplant. That transplant erased any trace of HIV from his body, and may hold the secret of curing AIDS.
Tina Rosenberg New York May 2011 15min Permalink
These were the people I lived with, these were my friends, these were my family, this was myself. I’d photograph people dancing while I was dancing Or people having sex while I was having sex. Or people drinking while I was drinking.
Nan Goldin, Stephen Westfall BOMB Magazine Sep 1991 15min Permalink
A profile of John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar.
Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.
Robert Kolker New York May 2011 25min Permalink
What happened when the U.S. Military decided to take its lead from America’s biggest brands.
Naomi Klein The Guardian May 2011 20min Permalink
The author gets a security guard job at this aging textile factory. Part of the City by City project.
Aaron Lake Smith n+1 May 2011 20min Permalink
She surveyed her former possessions, the stuff of a world now lost. "I'd be happy with just walking away from all of this," she concluded. "Dump it all and just start over. Happy birthday — I'm alive."
David Von Drehle Time May 2011 10min Permalink
A reporter on his first time covering a disaster.
Brian Stelter The Deadline May 2011 10min Permalink
How the Jesuit Church refused to stop pedophile priest:
"He truly is the Hannibal Lecter of the clerical world. He did more psychological and physical damage to children than anyone else. And what makes it worse is that the Jesuits knew about it, and did nothing."
Peter Jamison San Francisco Weekly May 2011 20min Permalink
American demand for drugs gave birth to the cartel war that is paralyzing Mexico, but American guns purchased legally across the Southwest and smuggled over the border have made it staggeringly lethal.
James Verini Portfolio Jun 2008 Permalink
A commencement address to the graduates of Harvard Medical School on how their chosen profession is changing and what they’ll need to learn now that they’re out of school.
Atul Gawande New Yorker May 2011 10min Permalink
In 1983, I wrote an article about sex and disabled people. In interviewing sexually active men and women, I felt removed, as though I were an anthropologist interviewing headhunters while endeavoring to maintain the value-neutral stance of a social scientist. Being disabled myself, but also being a virgin, I envied these people ferociously
Mark O'Brien The Sun Magazine May 1990 25min Permalink
On the eve of the release of The Tree of Life, a look back at the turbulent making of Terence Malick’s debut.
Nathaniel Penn GQ May 2011 30min Permalink
On the life of an American soldier AWOL in Canada.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Jun 2011 25min Permalink
What IARPA's project calls for is the deployment of spy resources against an entire language. Where you or I might parse a sentence, this project wants to parse, say, all the pages in Farsi on the Internet looking for hidden levers into the consciousness of a people.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic May 2011 10min Permalink
The year of the revolution, from behind the camera.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jun 2011 25min Permalink
On the soul of the commuter:
A commute is a distillation of a life’s main ingredients, a product of fundamental values and choices. And time is the vital currency: how much of it you spend—and how you spend it—reveals a great deal about how much you think it is worth.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Apr 2007 25min Permalink
Why the world is becoming less free.
The cover story from the June 2011 print edition of The New Republic, available on the web specially for readers of Longform.org.
Joshua Kurlantzick The New Republic Jun 2011 10min Permalink
An interview on craft:
Writing The Subs in three nights was really a fantastic athletic feat as well as mental, you shoulda seen me after I was done...I was pale as a sheet and had lost fifteen pounds and looked strange in the mirror.
Jack Kerouac, Ted Berrigan The Paris Review Jun 1968 45min Permalink
The first entry in the City by City project, on a Baltimore funeral:
My homeboy is interred at a cemetery with a swan lake where we used to take our girls at night because it was a park with a lake and it was just over the line and in the county.
Lawrence Jackson n+1 May 2011 15min Permalink
An investigation of the American sex trafficking industry.
Amy Fine Collins Vanity Fair May 2011 45min Permalink