Longform's Best of 2015
We recommended 1,453 articles this year, from 1,210 writers and 360 publications. They were read nearly 20 million times.
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We recommended 1,453 articles this year, from 1,210 writers and 360 publications. They were read nearly 20 million times.
We recommended 1,198 articles articles this year, from 971 writers and 283 publications.
How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.
Alex Perry Newsweek Jul 2014 Permalink
“The idea for Handybook occurred to me when I was studying at Harvard. It was so hard to find a reliable cleaning service to tidy my apartment! You know?”
Amanda Tomas The Billfold Oct 2014 10min Permalink
On September 11, 2001, three out of every four people who worked for Howard Lutnick died. The story of a recovery.
Susanne Craig New York Times Sep 2011 Permalink
The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.
Tom Vanderbilt Guardian Jan 2021 15min Permalink
A profile of Florida legend—and pardoned killer—Charlie Driver.
Mike Riggs The Awl Jun 2011 20min Permalink
The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.
Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 20min 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
For years sheriffs, mental health advocates, families and prosecutors have sounded the alarm about the number of people with mental illness arrested and locked up, many for minor crimes.
Gary A. Harki The Virginian-Pilot Aug 2018 20min Permalink
In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.
Michel J. Mooney D Magazine 20min
The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.
Mark Singer New Yorker 40min
The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.
A youth wasted on pro-level Ultimate Frisbee.
In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.
Patrick Symmes Outside 25min
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.
How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.
Ben Paynter Businessweek 10min
Reporting undercover from inside the online-shipping industry.
Mac McCelland Mother Jones 30min
Frank Firetti, a 54-year-old pool salesman in Virginia, and his fading American dream.
Eli Saslow Washington Post 25min
The emerging political consciousness of Silicon Valley.
George Packer New Yorker May 2013 40min
On recreational genetics and the vulnerability of family secrets.
Virginia Hughes Matter Dec 2013 40min
Inside the real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Ralph Langner Foreign Policy Nov 2013 35min
How the city will drown.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Jun 2013 30min
Boomtown San Francisco, as seen from the “Google Bus.”
Rebecca Solnit London Review of Books Feb 2013 15min
Feb–Dec 2013 Permalink
Traveling with a sex tourist to the Uzbek city of Tashkent.
Srinath Perur Open 55min
Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.
Entering her thirties single and adrift, the writer heads to San Francisco to spend time with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore and attend a gangbang “where all the men were dressed as panda bears.”
Emily Witt n+1 35min
Investigating San Francisco’s OneTaste, which promises personal and professional success through the practice of orgasmic meditation.
Nitasha Tiku Gawker 35min
A visit to Tokyo’s first co-sleeping cafe, where one can pay a set fee to sleep next to a woman in 20 minute increments, though spooning, being patted on the head, and a change of pajamas are extra.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's 10min
The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.
Rachel Nolan Harper's Mar 2019 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
When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.
Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Jan 2019 20min Permalink
In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.
Siddhartha Mukherjee New Yorker Aug 2016 20min Permalink
Inside the empire of Botox.
Cynthia Koons Businessweek Oct 2017 15min Permalink
A father, his dying son, and the quest to make the most profound video game ever.
Jason Tanz Wired Jan 2016 10min Permalink
Unpacking the empty promises of the minimalism craze.
Excerpted from The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, available January 21st. Chayka on the Longform Podcast.
Kyle Chayka The Guardian Jan 2020 20min Permalink
A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.
Ethan Brown Maxim Jul 2008 15min Permalink
Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?
May Jeong The Intercept Apr 2016 25min Permalink
The paper reports on a battle of its own.
Nicole Perlroth New York Times Jan 2013 10min Permalink
The real story of a fabricator.
Doyle Murphy Riverfront Times Feb 2016 20min Permalink