Dark Winter
Ten years after anthrax attacks, biodefense is busted.
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Ten years after anthrax attacks, biodefense is busted.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Oct 2011 30min Permalink
In the film bullets approach in slow motion a series of glistening roundels, resembling condoms just taken out of their paper wrappings. Most of the bullets go right through, leaving a clean hole. But the last roundel in the film collapses slowly, wrapping itself around the bullet like a blanket on a laundry line hit by a wayward football. It is a piece of artificially bred human skin, reinforced with eight layers of transgenic spider silk, the material spiders produce to spin their webs.
Translated from the original Dutch, exclusive to Longform.org.
Joost Ramaer De Groene Amsterdammer Aug 2011 10min Permalink
On the life of an American soldier AWOL in Canada.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Jun 2011 25min Permalink
What happened to Air France Flight 447?
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine May 2011 30min Permalink
The author came late to basketball. A profile of his favorite player:
He creates a sense of danger in the arena and yet has enough wit in his style to bring off funny ideas when he wants to.
Woody Allen Sport Jan 1970 15min Permalink
A profile of Eric Holder.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Dec 2010 25min Permalink
What went wrong with nuclear power?
Wil S. Hylton GQ Feb 2008 35min Permalink
Dr. Tom Coburn is a United States Senator. He doesn’t want your vote.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Feb 2007 20min Permalink
For the first time since exposing the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Joe Darby speaks out.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Sep 2006 15min Permalink
How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Dec 2005 15min Permalink
Colin Powell’s battle with the Bush administration.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Jun 2005 25min Permalink
A profile of then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Dec 2003 25min Permalink
Prison medicine and the coming plague.
Wil S. Hylton Harper's Aug 2003 35min Permalink
A profile of Benicio Del Toro.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Mar 2003 15min Permalink
Life as Beck.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Nov 2002 Permalink
What a soldier finds in combat.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Aug 2002 30min Permalink
A reversal of power in an age-old partnership.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Feb 2002 35min Permalink
He doesn’t really know. Never really has, actually, and that’s the way he likes it.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Feb 2001 10min Permalink
“The U.S. patent code was never meant to cover your genes, your cells, your blood, or the marrow in your bones. But it does. And the worst thing is, it’s too late for you to do anything about it. You’ve already been sold.”
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Jun 2001 40min Permalink
The tormenting of Wen Ho Lee.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Dec 2000 25min Permalink
“Ligurta Station, Arizona. The hottest town in America. It’s 120 in the shade. Can you dig it? Ron can. He’s been out here for the past five years, carving out his own little slice of heaven.”
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Aug 2000 15min Permalink
“Charlize Theron is anxious. Not greatly anxious, not distraught, but still. Anxious.”
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Oct 1999 Permalink
Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Aug 1999 15min Permalink
How the illegitimate son of Liberian ex-President (and accused cannibal) Charles Taylor went from being a small time Florida hoodlum to one of Africa’s most notorious killers.
Adam Higginbotham Details Nov 2007 25min Permalink