David Simon Does Not Care What You Think Is Cool About His TV Shows
On the set of ‘Show Me a Hero,’ his new HBO miniseries, Simon is as impassioned, cantankerous, and uncompromising as ever.
Grantland
The Broad Strokes
On the appeal of Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
We Went There
On the ground at the big, sad, strange Burt Reynolds memorabilia auction in Las Vegas.
Livin' Thing: An Oral History of Boogie Nights
The making and near unmaking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film.
The Weight of Guilt
Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.
Shady XLII: Eminem in 2014
The rapper who never grew up.
The Sea of Crises
A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.
Together We Make Football
On domestic violence and the NFL.
The Plunge
How a Soviet swimming champion saved passengers from a sinking trolleybus.
The Wet Stuff
The men who built the great American water park.
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not
The bumpy rise of Saturday Night Live’s first star.
Let’s Be Real
On Cops, cop movies and Ferguson.
The Front Lines of Ferguson
Two days in crisis.
At that moment, I didn’t feel like a journalist. There was nothing about this event that I felt the need to chronicle. There was no time to find out what the bombs actually were and what was actually coming out of the guns and what type of gas was coming out of the canisters. In this moment, there was nothing I felt the need to broadcast to the world. I didn’t even have the desire to communicate my safety or lack thereof.
I was just a black man in Ferguson.
Temple of Gloom
Why the second Indiana Jones was so dark.
The Faded Smile
Eddie Griffin made it to the NBA. Then his life began to unravel.
Say Hello to the Bad Guy
A profile of Tiny Lister, the silver screen’s half-blind villain.
The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits
How a Japanese company took over the American living room.
All the Kings' Men
An oral history of the 2002 Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings.
Previously: Jonathan Abrams on the Longform Podcast.
Wu-Tang, Atomically
How the group’s 10 members live today.
Dropped
Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive—and perhaps of all time—back away from his art to open a construction business?
Previously: Jason Fagone on the Longform Podcast.
Let Me Live That Fantasy
Searching for Puddles the Clown, whose cover of Lorde’s “Royals” made him an Internet star.
So Money
An oral history of Swingers.
What Grantland Got Wrong
On the problems in “Dr. V’s Magical Putter.”
Dr. V's Magical Putter
The very complicated life of Dr. Essay Anne Vanderbilt, who once built a very good golf club.
Update: Grantland has published a pair of responses to the reaction to this story, "What Grantland Got Wrong" by Christina Kahrl and "The Dr. V Story: A Letter From the Editor" by Bill Simmons.
The Steroid Hunt
What baseball writers did during the steroid era.
