What the Hell Happened in East New York?
The story of a broken neighborhood.
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The story of a broken neighborhood.
Kevin Heldman Digg Apr 2016 30min Permalink
Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Aug 2016 25min Permalink
An oral history of Air Force One on September 11th.
Garrett Graff Politico Sep 2016 1h10min Permalink
“A love letter to my new country.”
Andrew Sullivan New York Jan 2017 30min Permalink
“Do you think you’re talking to a normal person here?”
David Marchese Vulture Mar 2017 35min Permalink
“I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common, and arbitrary, sense, meaning that I then discovered God, His saints and angels, and His blazing Hell. And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous.”
James Baldwin New Yorker Nov 1962 1h25min Permalink
A new kind of late capitalism.
Alexis C. Madrigal The Atlantic Jan 2018 10min Permalink
Twenty years later, the author looks back.
Monica Lewinsky Vanity Fair Feb 2018 15min Permalink
Jaimee was beloved. Jaimee was struggling. And then Jaimee was gone.
Evan Allen Boston Globe May 2018 20min Permalink
How Jim Hayes blew it all.
Natalie O'Neill The Daily Beast Sep 2018 15min Permalink
Two people went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail. Only one made it out.
Earl Swift Outside Nov 2018 30min Permalink
Turns out animal intelligence is not so different from our own.
Brandon Keim Sierra Magazine Feb 2019 15min Permalink
Being pregnant again means being willing to end it.
What happens when America’s darkest crime writer sees the light?
Leo Robson 1843 May 2019 15min Permalink
Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions.
Andrew Marantz New Yorker Aug 2019 30min Permalink
On long-distance grief.
Lauren Collins New Yorker May 2020 15min Permalink
A found diary holds a love story—and a mystery.
Christina Lalanne The Atavist Magazine Nov 2020 30min Permalink
The double life of Aaron Hernandez.
Paul Solotaroff, Ron Borges Rolling Stone Aug 2013 15min Permalink
A murderous grandma, a master counterfeiter, and a notorious teenage drug dealer in Detroit — the most read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
The the incredible story of Rick Wershe, an infamous teenage drug dealer in 1980s Detroit who flew in kilos of cocaine and was arrested at 17. Still incarcerated, Wershe now claims he was working with the FBI all along. Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the feds’ most valuable informants?
Available free, only in the Longform App.
Evan Hughes The Atavist 1h15min
What do you do when you think a family member is a murderer? Step one: stop letting her make you dinner.
The story of Frank Bourassa, the world’s most prolific counterfeiter.
He has a staff of 300. His website gets more traffic than Gawker and has 300,000 paying subscribers. He has a clothing line, a string of bestselling books, a movie studio and a radio show syndicated on 400 stations. A profile of Glenn Beck, mogul.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine 20min
Scrutinizing the gluten-free craze.
Michael Specter New Yorker 25min
“Over the years, it’s been hard to get male movie stars to be in a movie if a woman’s the lead, where a great, great movie star, a woman, will be in a movie where the man’s the lead. So there’s just not parity there, we’re not on equal footing.”
Amy Larocca New York Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Tom Wicker was without a notebook on November 22, 1963. Instead, reported Gay Talese, he “scribbled his observations and facts across the back of a mimeographed itinerary of Kennedy’s two-day tour of Texas.”
Here’s the 3,700-word masterpiece he filed.
Tom Wicker New York Times Nov 1963 15min Permalink
The first entry in the City by City project, on a Baltimore funeral:
My homeboy is interred at a cemetery with a swan lake where we used to take our girls at night because it was a park with a lake and it was just over the line and in the county.
Lawrence Jackson n+1 May 2011 15min Permalink
Life on the other side of the laptop.
Jack Davies Vice Dec 2013 15min Permalink
Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.
Michael Bronner Foreign Policy Jan 2014 20min Permalink
On the campaign trail with Richard Nixon.
Gloria Steinem New York Oct 1968 45min Permalink