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Pro boxing, famous for larger-than-life characters, now has one invented or the Instagram age.
Brin-Jonathan Butler The Undefeated Dec 2016 15min Permalink
The broadcasting behemoth is up for a charter renewal in the United Kingdom, and it’s exposing every crack in the organization.
Charlotte Higgins The Guardian Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s widow on addiction, loss, and recovery.
Mimi O'Donnell Vogue Dec 2017 15min Permalink
In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.
Lyra McKee The Irish Times Mar 2020 15min Permalink
Another look at a popular myth.
For the longest time blues fans didn’t even know what their hero looked like—in 1971, a music magazine even hired a forensic artist to make a composite sketch based on various first-hand accounts—until two photos of Robert Johnson finally came to light. The dapper young man pictured in the most famous photo, dressed in a stylish suit and smiling affably at the camera, hardly looks like a man who has sold his soul to Lucifer.
Ted Gioia Alibi Magazine Aug 2011 Permalink
A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Apr 2011 40min Permalink
“We’re trying really hard to make things better,” said one former Apple executive. “But most people would still be really disturbed if they saw where their iPhone comes from.”
Previously: “Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class”
Charles Duhigg, David Barboza New York Times Jan 2012 15min Permalink
The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.
Christopher Goffard, Joel Rubin, Kurt Streeter The Los Angeles Times Dec 2013 25min Permalink
A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.
Mark Jacobson New York Sep 1975 15min Permalink
Some of the wealthiest people in America are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Jan 2017 30min Permalink
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner—and the police punished him for it.
Chloé Cooper Jones The Verge Mar 2019 30min Permalink
Governor? Senator? Veep? President?!
Rebecca Traister The Cut Mar 2019 30min Permalink
“I faced death and all that shit. It’s my responsibility to come back and come back strong. It’s going to take more than a Walmart truck to take that gift away. I can’t wait to make you all laugh. Especially you, Mike. And I already did that today. So all is good.”
Michael Paterniti GQ Nov 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of former club kid Michael Alig, who is approaching release after serving 17 years in jail for murder.
Caitlin Dickson The Daily Beast Feb 2014 15min Permalink
A campaign diary of Luther Campbell’s (better known as Dr. Luke of 2 Live Crew) run for Mayor of Miami-Dade County.
Francisco Alvarado The Miami New Times May 2011 15min Permalink
Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 2014 20min Permalink
Three years after her gold-medal performance – and amidst rumors of a fall from grace – the author travels to Transylvania to track down gymnast Nadia Comaneci. He also enjoys several drinks with her coach, Bela Karolyi.
Part of our Olympics primer, on the Longform blog.
Bob Ottum Sports Illustrated Nov 1979 25min Permalink
On balancing creative ambition and financial security.
Genevieve Smith Elle Apr 2013 Permalink
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How the Ivory Coast national team helped end the country’s civil war.
Jordan Conn Grantland Jun 2014 25min
How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.
Matthew Futterman Wall Street Journal Jun 2014 10min
A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.
Wright Thompson ESPN May 2014 10min
“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”
Supriya Nair Roads & Kingdoms May 2014
Pelé, Garrincha, and the two souls of Brazilian soccer.
Brian Phillips Grantland Jun 2014
On the complicated relationship between the world's best player and his homeland.
Jeff Himmelman New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 15min
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The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.
Rachel Nolan Harper's Mar 2019 30min Permalink
For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
Laura Todd Carns The Atavist Oct 2021 35min Permalink
Danny Caldwell is openly gay. He’s married. And he’s against gay marriage.
James Ross Gardner Talking Points Memo Jun 2015 15min Permalink
For Gangaram Mahes, Rikers Island was the only chance for three squares and a “decent life.” So Mahes committed the same crime 31 straight times: refusing to pay the check at New York City restaurants.
Rick Bragg New York Times May 1994 Permalink
Shared parenting is usually better for children—but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers.
Megan O’Matz ProPublica Sep 2021 25min Permalink
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