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As the summer months stretched into fall, Justin Edwards would sometimes bump into the man wanted for his attempted murder.
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As the summer months stretched into fall, Justin Edwards would sometimes bump into the man wanted for his attempted murder.
Kyle Hopkins Anchorage Daily News Dec 2021 20min Permalink
Finding peace and quiet in the high Canadian Arctic.
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Tom Bissell VQR Jun 2005 40min Permalink
A study in building spaceships.
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Amy Benson The Collagist May 2014 10min Permalink
A man heads to Key West in a quest for sobriety.
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Mary Morris Electric Literature Jun 2014 45min Permalink
A chance encounter with a movie star on an airplane.
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Miranda July New Yorker Jun 2007 10min Permalink
The postscript to a miracle.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jul 2014 35min Permalink
A terrifying stalker, a crooked cop and a failed plan in Russia — the week's top stories on Longform.
“I write this with a baseball bat by the bed.”
Helen DeWitt London Review of Books Aug 2014 15min
What U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul has seen in Russia since he arrived two and a half years ago.
David Remnick New Yorker Aug 2014 45min
On the history of masturbation.
Stephen Greenblatt The New York Review of Books Apr 2004 20min
Louis Scarcella was a star New York City detective in the ’80s and ’90s, cracking cases no one else could. Now it appears that many of the people he put away were innocent, forced into false confessions and convicted with testimony from flimsy witnesses. Scarcella maintains that he did nothing wrong, despite evidence against him much stronger than in many of his cases.
Sean Flynn GQ Aug 2014 25min
On Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr and now Slack, a wildly popular, difficult-to-describe messaging service that has 38,000 paying subscribers just a few months after launching.
Apr 2004 – Aug 2014 Permalink
When American and Iraqi soldiers were exposed to leftover chemical munitions from Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran, the Pentagon kept silent.
C.J. Chivers The New York Times Oct 2014 Permalink
“Redistricting today has become the most insidious practice in American politics—a way, as the opportunistic machinations following the 2010 census make evident, for our elected leaders to entrench themselves in 435 impregnable garrisons from which they can maintain political power while avoiding demographic realities.”
Robert Draper The Atlantic Sep 2012 20min Permalink
Their partnership lasted a mere four years, but transformed comedy forever. Mike Nichols and Elaine may give their first joint interview since breaking up 51 years ago.
Sam Kashner, Mike Nichols, Elaine May Vanity Fair Dec 2012 30min Permalink
“When I was fourteen, I had a relationship with my eighth grade history teacher. People called me a victim. They called him a villain. But it’s more complicated than that.”
Jenny Kutner Texas Monthly Dec 2013 30min Permalink
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On “the Incidents”, three shootings in a single month in a 1,300 person hamlet tucked inside the 12-year-old Nunavut territory. (The complete 4-part series.)
Patrick White The Globe and Mail Apr 2011 Permalink
The author tracked down “the other” Alan – Alan Z. Feuer – for a story last year. After the other Alan’s death, however, the author learns the truth about the society man’s humble past.
Alan Feuer New York Times Apr 2012 10min Permalink
John Dirr’s son Eli didn’t really have cancer. In fact, neither Eli nor John Dirr ever existed.
A decade-long Internet hoax unravels.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2012 Permalink
In 1952, Abe Feller, the U.N.’s first General Counsel, jumped to his death. More than 50 years later, his great nephew tries to figure out why.
Peter Birkenhead The Big Roundtable Jun 2015 35min Permalink
After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.
Michael E. Miller Washington Post Jul 2015 15min Permalink
Joe Namath believes hyperbaric oxygen treatment can reverse the brain damage he and others suffered playing football, so much so that a treatment center carries his name. The science, however, doesn’t support his claims.
Peter Keating ESPN Jul 2015 10min Permalink
“I tell them it’s like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
George Plimpton The Paris Review Dec 1986 30min Permalink
A business opportunity stemming from “a moment in time when the debate over how colleges should address sexual assault has reached a fever pitch.”
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jul 2015 15min Permalink
A war criminal’s life on the run.
Julian Borger The Guardian Jan 2016 25min Permalink
What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah New York Times Magazine Feb 2016 35min Permalink
In 1970, he was plucked from Saigon to attend West Point. He got his degree and went home to fight, but instead spent six years in a reeducation camp. Then, somehow, he ended up teaching high school in D.C.
Chip Scanlan Washington Post Magazine Jul 1992 30min Permalink
Guz Dominguez says he was trying to help baseball players from Cuba; the U.S. government says he was smuggling athletes. The truth is more complicated.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Jul 2008 1h5min Permalink
What has Ted Haggard, who left the New Life megachurch after admitting he purchased crystal meth and sexual favors from a male escort, been doing in the four years since? Selling insurance door to door and then… founding a new church and returning to the pulpit.
Kevin Roose GQ Feb 2011 20min Permalink