An orphan named Patience and an argument for open immigration.

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.

Billionaire Marcelo Claure wants to help David Beckham bring professional soccer to South Florida. He just doesn't want to talk about it.

Searching for sanctuary with American war deserters.

Uncovering the real story behind Capote’s Hand-Carved Coffins.

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

On the coming age of domestic drones.

How a woman born of wealth and privilege tries to bomb the establishment from which she came and ultimately dies in the process.

This Pulitzer-winning series is reprinted online in full and for the first time by Longform.

A personal reconstruction.

How the author writes best-selling non-fiction books without the ability to leave her house.

The short-lived literary career of Breece DʼJ Pancake and his roadmap to a world of oppressive poverty.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

The story of TWA Flight 841.

Retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s steps 40 years later.

A profile of Thelonious Monk.

Partying with a lost tycoon on his birthday.

Tracking a rumored gerbil infestation through China’s bureaucracy.

A memoir of Santa Cruz.

An execution in war-torn Cuba.

Scenes from a Bowery flophouse.

After two years of filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole returns to his childhood home in Ireland.

Plus: 50 years later, Gay Talese remembers the late Peter O'Toole.

Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.