The Smartest Man in America
Profiles of people with genius-level IQs.
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Profiles of people with genius-level IQs.
Mike Sager Esquire Nov 1999 25min Permalink
An oral history of Siskel and Ebert.
Josh Schollmeyer Slate Mar 2012 15min Permalink
A tour of our greatest conspiracy theories.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Nov 2013 Permalink
A profile of Rupert Murdoch, written before his empire began to crumble.
Gabriel Sherman New York Feb 2010 30min Permalink
Adapted from a new biography of Jane Fonda.
Patricia Bosworth Vanity Fair Sep 2011 30min Permalink
A profile of Elizabeth Warren.
Suzanna Andrews Vanity Fair Nov 2011 25min Permalink
A profile of Taylor Wilson, who achieved nuclear fusion at age 14.
Tom Clynes Popular Science Feb 2012 20min Permalink
A pair of undercover cops infiltrate a dogfighting ring in Houston.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Aug 2009 25min Permalink
A globe-trotting, pre-CCTV profile of architect Rem Koolhaas.
Daniel Zalewski New Yorker Mar 2005 45min Permalink
How Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government has woven soccer into its grisly campaign of oppression.
Steve Fainaru ESPN May 2017 Permalink
How a perfect vision of mother hood hurts moms.
Claire Howorth Time Oct 2017 15min Permalink
A profile of Joss Sackler.
Norman Vanamee Town & Country May 2019 15min Permalink
A study of resilience in does and other female creatures.
Sandra Steingraber Orion Jun 2021 20min Permalink
You’re not supposed to just vanish at Vortex Spring. Dive too deep and you might not make it back to the surface, but a search party will eventually find your body. Nobody has found Ben McDaniel yet.
Ben Montgomery The St. Petersburg Times Apr 2011 15min Permalink
The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Jul 1999 20min Permalink
The Booker Prize-winning novelist on fantasy, reality, and a religious crisis that has never ended.
Jia Tolentino New Yorker Jan 2019 Permalink
Foursquare and Gowalla are in a VC-funded race to become the dominant location-based social network. But their founders say both companies have a larger purpose.
Neal Pollack Wired (UK) Jun 2010 Permalink
“Three giant telecoms are gonna make and own all the content, and they’re not gonna want anyone else to make it.”
Jonah Weiner New York Times Magazine Jul 2019 30min Permalink
African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Decades after the company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, harassment and assault continues.
Susan Chira, Catrin Einhorn New York Times Dec 2017 25min Permalink
“Look, we all know that every city is unique. That’s all we talk about when we talk about cities, those things that make New York different from L.A., or Tokyo different from Albuquerque. But focusing on those differences misses the point. Sure, there are differences, but different from what? We’ve found the what.”
Jonah Lehrer New York Times Magazine Dec 2010 20min Permalink
Life as a serial killer's kid, a rare interview with Stephen King and Chris Rock's last chance to become a leading man — the most read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
Life as a serial killer’s daughter.
Melissa Moore BBC 10min
A profile of Chris Rock as he makes one last attempt to jump from standup to leading man.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker 25min
A son’s love letter to his sick mom.
Cord Jefferson Matter 20min
The author on why he belives in God (“It makes things better”), the perils of writing high (“Annie Wilkes is cocaine, she was my number-one fan”) and what he thinks of other writers (“Hemingway sucks, basically”).
Andy Greene Rolling Stone 30min
Experiments in workday productivity.
Kevin Roose Matter 10min
Resurrecting a legendary typeface.
The Economist Dec 2013 10min Permalink
Finding peace and quiet in the high Canadian Arctic.
Previously: The Longform Guide to Silence.
Tom Bissell VQR Jun 2005 40min Permalink
The case that brought leaks to the popular consciousness.
Sanford J. Ungar The Atlantic Nov 1972 15min Permalink