The Bout
How one Texas boxing match changed history.
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How one Texas boxing match changed history.
Cary Clack Truly*Adventurous Feb 2020 30min Permalink
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Jul 2020 30min Permalink
A collection of articles by and about the Paris Review founder, who died 10 years ago this week.</p>
"Some in Nice knew the man as one of the many playboy predators the city seems to beget—black hair slicked back off a shining brow, dress shoes tapering to varnished points, a dark shirt unbuttoned low to reveal the pectorals into which he had obsessively, unblushingly, invested himself. He was 31 but preferred older women, both for their erotic openness and, it seems clear, for their money. Those who knew him best knew him to be a cold and brutal man, detached, amused by little save rough sex and gore."
Scott Sayare GQ Jan 2017 20min Permalink
Stories from our archive about how marijuana is grown, bought, sold, smuggled, and smoked.
Brought to you by Stoner, a new podcast from Longform co-founder Aaron Lammer featuring conversations with creative people about their experiences with marijuana. Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Writing in his mid-30s—and, it’s worth noting, in 1969—the scientist breaks down the many pleasures he’s found in getting high.
Carl Sagan Marijuana Reconsidered Jan 1969 10min
A journey inside California’s medical marijuana industry, with a guide named Captain Blue.
David Samuels New Yorker Jul 2008 50min
A trip to the Cannabis Cup serves as a backdrop for an explanation of how the War on Drugs revolutionized the way marijuana is grown in America.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine Feb 1995 30min
The story of how a 19-year-old kid in Idaho went from delivering pizza to leading a operation responsible for smuggling at least seven tons of marijuana across the Canadian border.
Mike Binelli Rolling Stone Oct 2009 20min
On marijuana’s impact on national politics, the economy, and the prison system.
Eric Schlosser The Atlantic Aug 1994 40min
Looking for a glimpse of America’s possibly legalized future, a reporter spends a week working at an Amsterdam coffee shop (and confronts his fear of weed, kind of).
Wells Tower GQ Aug 2010 25min
A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.
John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Jun 2011 25min
How a group of hippie surfers and a former Spanish teacher built the largest weed-smuggling empire on the West Coast.
Joshuah Bearman The Atavist Magazine Sep 2013
Jan 1969 – Sep 2013 Permalink
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After two New Jersey homes were robbed of their silver—only their silver—in the same night, the local police got a call from a detective in Greenwich, Connecticut. “I know the guy who’s doing your burglaries.”
Stephen J. Dubner New Yorker May 2004 35min
The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do. The story that became The Bling Ring.
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2010 20min
Over the last several years, millions of dollars worth of antique rhino horns have been stolen form collections around the world. The only thing more unusual than the crimes is the theory about who is responsible: A handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.
Charles Homans The Atavist Magazine Mar 2014 1h15min
Dozens of fake identities. More than 1,000 break-ins. A haul of gold, jewelry, and art worth an estimated $40 million. For 16 months, no wealthy Angeleno was safe from Ignacio Del Río.
Luke O'Brien Details May 2010 15min
Magicians, mafiosos, a missing painting and the heist of a lifetime.
Joshua Davis, David Wolman Epic Oct 2014 35min
May 2004 – Oct 2014 Permalink
Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.
Max Chafkin Fast Company Apr 2014 35min Permalink
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.
Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2014 40min Permalink
Bruce Cawsey Waite has no home, no office, and wears a dead man’s suit.
Lisa Taddeo The New York Observer Oct 2012 Permalink
Corruption, venality, and tragedy: a collection of picks on what lies beneath the glitter.
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Rolling Stone May 1989 50min
Somehow, River Phoenix’s reluctance to be a star only made him more famous. When he died outside an LA club in 1993, it only cemented his troubled legend.
Tad Friend Esquire Mar 1994 25min
He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.
Grover Lewis LA Weekly Jun 1993 40min
Bonnie Lee Bakley always wanted to marry a celebrity. The one she chose was Robert Blake, a troubled and only intermittently famous man who would end up accused of her murder.
David Grann The New Republic Aug 2001 20min
Peter Bart was once a movie executive like everyone else, but as the head of Variety, the industry’s powerful source of news,
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min
How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jul 2006 35min
He was just another coked-up agent (representing the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.
Evan Wright Vanity Fair Mar 2007 1h35min
Two years ago, the fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. His friends worry that he’s being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion, or something even worse.
Andy Martino New York Daily News Mar 2016 20min
May 1989 – Mar 2016 Permalink
The ragtag group of fighters from America and Europe who joined the fight against extremists in Syria don’t seem to know what they are doing.
Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 15min Permalink
The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.
The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.
Aman Sethi The Guardian Dec 2015 25min Permalink
On a small section of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil and the American who tried to claim it for himself.
Jack Shenker The Guardian Mar 2016 25min Permalink
In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed an AIDS epidemic in rural China and the ensuing government cover-up. Forced to leave, she’s now 85 and living alone in New York.
Kathleen McLaughlin Buzzfeed Dec 2013 20min Permalink
At a playground in North Wales, kids are mostly left alone to experiment with fire, jump from great heights and play in a creek. It’s designed to teach the value of taking risks, a lesson many American children have stopped learning.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Mar 2014 35min Permalink
The life that he has created almost from scratch over the last two years has been defined at least as much by what Tyson wants to avoid — old haunts, old habits, old temptations and old hangers-on — as by what he wants to embrace.
Daphne Merkin New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 10min Permalink
On the ground in Nigeria with the nation’s notorious scam artists, who share a remarkable number of qualities with America’s top entrepreneurs.
Sarah Lacy TechCrunch May 2011 10min Permalink
In the 1970s, Kelbessa Negewo was a midlevel administrator in Ethiopia’s brutal Red Terror regime. In the 1990s, he was a bellhop in an Atlanta hotel. Then someone he had tortured back home recognized him.
Andrew Rice New York Times Magazine Jun 2006 30min Permalink
An interview with Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone writer Vanessa Grigoriadis on the finer points of celebrity profiling.
Jonah Weiner, Vanessa Grigoriadis The Writearound Sep 2011 10min Permalink
A profile of John Alan Schwartz, creator of one of the most notorious movies ever made.
Brian Hickey Deadspin Feb 2012 10min Permalink
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.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Feb 2012 25min Permalink
An American mystery writer and an Italian journalist join forces to identify a serial killer that targeted couples having sex in cars in the rolling hills above Florence.
Douglas Preston The Atlantic Jul 2006 Permalink
For more than a century, boys were sent to the Florida School for Boys reformatory. Many were beaten brutally and bear the physical and psychological scars to this day. Many others, though, never came home.
A search for lost boys and the reasons why they died.
A neglected cemetery yields more bodies than expected, but names are harder to find.
Ben Montgomery Tampa Bay Times Dec 2014 50min Permalink
Nearly 50 years ago, a penniless monk arrived in Manhattan, where he began to build an unrivaled community of followers—and a reputation for sexual abuse.
Mark Oppenheimer The Atlantic Dec 2014 35min Permalink