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

The Guardian

Health

The Perils of Being Your Own Doctor

A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.

Mert Erogul The Guardian Aug 2016 20min Permalink

Business Crime

1MDB: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Financial Scandal

How a retired Swiss banker ended up behind bars in Thailand for uncovering a scheme that included the Malaysian prime minister and billions of in laundered money that was spent on everything from parties with Paris Hilton to backing for The Wolf of Wall Street.

Randeep Ramesh The Guardian Jul 2016 25min Permalink

Science Health

Allergic to Life: The Arizona Residents "Sensitive to the Whole World"

For those who suffer from environmental illnesses, the town of Snowflake is an escape from a modern world full of allergens: fragrances, gluten, wifi.

Kathleen Hale, Mae Ryan The Guardian Jul 2016 15min Permalink

Politics World

Brexit: A Disaster Decades in the Making

A political history of Britain.

Read more

“On the day after the referendum, many Britons woke up with the feeling – some for better, some for worse – that they were suddenly living in a different country. But it is not a different country: what brought us here has been brewing for a very long time.”

Gary Younge The Guardian Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Sex

My Life as a Sex Object

The aftermath of a childhood filled with subway flashers, teachers who asked for hugs, and boys who joked about your breasts.

Read more

Excerpted from Sex Object.

Jessica Valenti The Guardian May 2016 15min Permalink

Business Tech

The Inside Story of Facebook’s Biggest Setback

The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.

Rahul Bhatia The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

The Gangsters on England's Doorstep

In bleak farmlands of East Anglia, the first wave of Eastern European migrants learned exploitation and extortion from their own experiences with day labor. Then they began to prey on fellow immigrants, luring in them into debt and then forcing them to commit crimes to pay it off.

Felicity Lawrence The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink

World

The Day We Discovered Our Parents Were Russian Spies

Their entire lives, Alex and Tim Foley thought their mom and dad were typical, boring American parents. Then the FBI showed up.

Shaun Walker The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink

Business Tech

How Uber Conquered London

There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.

Sam Knight The Guardian Apr 2016 35min Permalink

Crime

Offshore in Central London

Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?

Oliver Bullough The Guardian Apr 2016 20min Permalink

“The Shame Sticks to You Like Tar”

A conversation with Monica Lewinsky about bullying, humiliation, and resurrection.

Read more

Previously: Jon Ronson on the Longform Podcast and “Shame and Survival,” Lewinsky’s 2014 essay for Vanity Fair.

Jon Ronson The Guardian Apr 2016 15min Permalink

Politics Food Health

The Sugar Conspiracy

Fat doesn’t make us fat. So why has science led us to believe otherwise?

Ian Leslie The Guardian Apr 2016 25min Permalink

How My Hoarder Landlady Ruined My Life

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

Steven W. Thrasher The Guardian Apr 2016 15min Permalink

The Day My Partner Drowned

She believed she had survived the worst time of her life. But there was more to come.

Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian Mar 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

Death By Gentrification: The Killing That Shamed San Francisco

Alex Nieto died because a series of white men saw him as a menacing intruder in the place he’d spent his whole life.

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Mar 2016 20min Permalink

History World

Welcome to the Land That No Country Wants

On a small section of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil and the American who tried to claim it for himself.

Jack Shenker The Guardian Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Tech Health

Cancer Cons, Phoney Accidents and Fake Deaths: Meet the Internet Hoax Buster

Inside one woman’s often conflicted world.

Rachel Monroe The Guardian Feb 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

Why Did Two Parents Murder Their Adopted Child?

Asunta Fong Yang was adopted as a baby by a wealthy Spanish couple. Aged 12, she was found dead beside a country road. Not long after, her mother and father were arrested.

Giles Tremlett The Guardian Feb 2016 20min Permalink

Tech

Death of a Troll

The story behind an online gamer’s suicide.

Alina Simone The Guardian Jan 2016 20min Permalink

Crime World

14 Years a Fugitive: The Hunt for Ratko Mladić, the Butcher of Bosnia

A war criminal’s life on the run.

Read more

Previously: The Longform Guide to Fugitives

Julian Borger The Guardian Jan 2016 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Man Who Solved His Own Murder

In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy working for British intelligence, was poisoned. As he lay dying, he worked with detectives to find his killer.

Luke Harding The Guardian Jan 2016 25min Permalink

Sports

Can the Greatest Darts Player of All Time Step Away from the Game that Made Him?

A legend hangs on.

Ed Caesar The Guardian Apr 2015 25min Permalink

Business Crime World

The Mystery of India’s Deadly Exam Scam

The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.

Aman Sethi The Guardian Dec 2015 25min Permalink

World

The Machiavelli of Maryland

Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.

Thomas Meaney The Guardian Dec 2015 30min Permalink

Politics World

Why South African Students Have Turned on Their Parents’ Generation

Inside a movement.

Eve Fairbanks The Guardian Nov 2015 20min Permalink

Newer
1 ··· 3 4
6 7 ··· 10
Older