Longform

  • Podcast
  • Best Of
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
  • Archive

    • Sections
    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • Random Article
  • Contact

    • podcast@longform.org

Publications

New Yorker

Science

How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory

The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink

Arts

How Beeple Crashed the Art World

Making sense of a $69 million NFT.

Kyle Chayka New Yorker Mar 2021 15min Permalink

Business

What Happens When Investment Firms Acquire Trailer Parks

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business Health

Behind the Scenes at a Five-Star Hotel

For years, employees of the Pierre enjoyed some of the most enviable union jobs in New York City. How much of that will survive the pandemic?

Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business World

The Rise of Made-in-China Diplomacy

While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers.

Peter Hessler New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink

Science World

Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What’s the Cost for Locals?

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.

Ian Urbina New Yorker Mar 2021 Permalink

Science

Missing a Beat

Millions of hearts fail each year. Why can’t we replace them?

Joshua Rothman New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink

World

Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State

Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation.

Ben Mauk New Yorker Feb 2021 30min Permalink

World Health

Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others?

While the virus has ravaged rich nations, reported death rates in poorer ones remain relatively low. What probing this epidemiological mystery can tell us about global health.

Siddhartha Mukherjee New Yorker Feb 2021 25min Permalink

Best Article

This Old Man

Love, loss, and life at 93.

Roger Angell New Yorker Feb 2014 20min Permalink

Business

The Fight for Fifteen at an Orlando McDonald's

For some workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

Eleni Schirmer New Yorker Feb 2021 30min Permalink

How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools

An interview with Gabriela López, the head of the San Francisco Board of Education.

Isaac Chotiner New Yorker Feb 2021 Permalink

Health

Inside the Worst-Hit County in the Worst-Hit State in the Worst-Hit Country

When COVID-19 surged through a North Dakota community, a battle with the pandemic became a battle among its residents.

Atul Gawande New Yorker Feb 2021 40min Permalink

Best Article Politics

The Race to Dismantle Trump’s Immigration Policies

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.

Sarah Stillman New Yorker Feb 2021 30min Permalink

Business

Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?

Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.

John Seabrook New Yorker Jan 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

Among the Insurrectionists

The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2021 50min Permalink

Business

Trolling the Great Outdoors

As the wilderness gets overrun, the most hated man in the Rockies finds an audience of emulators and antagonists.

Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Jan 2021 Permalink

Arts

Sculpture and Flow

Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui is redefining Africa’s place in the global art scene.

Julian Lucas New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Politics

The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment

A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.

Jill Lepore New Yorker Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Tech Media

Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

Anna Wiener New Yorker Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Music

The Mask of Doom

A profile of MF Doom.

Ta-Nehisi Coates New Yorker Sep 2009 20min Permalink

History Health

The Plague Year

The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

Lawrence Wright New Yorker Dec 2020 2h Permalink

Best Article

Chicago Christmas, 1984

How John, a father of 14, lost Christmas.

Read more

George Saunders on the Longform Podcast

George Saunders New Yorker Dec 2003 10min Permalink

Arts

How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism

Each time the work of the British-Mexican artist and writer is reborn, it seems more prescient.

Merve Emre New Yorker Dec 2020 20min Permalink

History Science

The Skeletons at the Lake

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

Douglas Preston New Yorker Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Newer
1 2
4 5 ··· 40
Older