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A profile of Felipe Lopez, high school phenom.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Mar 1993 40min Permalink
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
Brian Phillips Grantland Aug 2011 15min Permalink
Faulkner, a small writing shed, and Salida, Colorado: a profile of novelist Kent Haruf.
Chris Outcalt 5280 May 2015 20min Permalink
A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.
Laura M. Colarusso Washington Monthly May 2012 40min Permalink
An oral history of Goodfellas.
A profile of Chicago soul great Syl Johnson.
Peter Margasak Chicago Reader Nov 2010 15min Permalink
A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Justin Heckert Garden and Gun May 2017 20min Permalink
A profile of Cardi B.
Allison P. Davis New York Nov 2017 20min Permalink
As R. Kelly’s career flourished, an industry overlooked allegations of abusive behavior toward young women.
Geoff Edgers Washington Post May 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.
Charles P. Pierce GQ Mar 1997 25min Permalink
A profile of Bill Withers at 76.
Andy Greene Rolling Stone Apr 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jun 2016 30min Permalink
Making sense of a $69 million NFT.
Kyle Chayka New Yorker Mar 2021 15min Permalink
“You are reading this because you have no idea what NASA is doing. And NASA, tongue-tied by jargon, can’t figure out how to tell you. But the agency is engaged in work that can be more enduring and far-reaching than anything else this country is paying for.”
Sean Wilsey GQ Jun 2009 40min Permalink
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his debut thriller, The Woman in the Window. His life contains even stranger twists.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2018 50min Permalink
A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live?
Alex Morris New York Jan 2010 20min Permalink
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“The days when you could nurture a new idea for months or years are long gone. Today, it has become days and weeks. Increasingly, it is shrinking to hours.”
Meg Whitman HP Matter Jun 2015 Permalink
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Feb 2018 40min Permalink
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Dec 2020 Permalink
Prospecting for gold is still a live trade in America, if you’re willing to walk deep into the desert with a hand-drawn map.
Will Grant Outside Feb 2015 20min Permalink
“This is Britain in 2017. A Britain that increasingly looks like a “managed” democracy. Paid for by a US billionaire. Using military-style technology. Delivered by Facebook. And enabled by us.”
Carole Cadwalladr The Guardian May 2017 25min Permalink
Have you tried the new (totally free!) Longform app yet? It's only been out for a few days and already tens of thousands of readers are using it to find great articles. Here are the top five stories they've been reading:
Maintaining order behind bars.
Graeme Wood The Atlantic Sep 2014 20min
How, and why, a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Sep 2014 20min
On the Cold War and the Space Race.
Kurt Eichenwald Newsweek Sep 2014
“Big things have enormous beginnings.”
Nilay Patel The Verge Sep 2014 10min
The story of one of the 74,000 children who come to this country each year alone and undocumented.
Alexandra Starr New York Sep 2014 10min
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An essay from inside Sing Sing.
John J. Lennon New York Review of Books Jul 2019 30min Permalink
PJ Vogt is the co-host of Reply All.
“Every radio story is broken. Everything is missing some piece it’s supposed to have. Everything has some weird interview that didn’t go the way you thought it was going to go, or you thought you had an answer but you were wrong.”
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Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink