The Susan Orlean Archive
From high school gyms in New York to beaches in Hawaii, our favorite stories by the New Yorker writer. Orlean’s archive on Longform.
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This Profile of Charlie Kaufman Has Changed
How do you write about Hollywood’s most self-referential screenwriter at a destabilizing moment in history? It takes more than one draft.
The One Clean Man
Finding a saint in a leprosy settlement in Hawaii.
After the Crash
The case against Boeing.
New on Longform Fiction
Every weekday, our editors recommend one short story from across the web on Longform Fiction. Three picks from this week:
Mexican Manifesto
Roberto Bolaño • New Yorker
A series of mysterious, dangerous interactions in a Mexican bathhouse.
Babushka
Sarah Gentile • Vol. 1 Brooklyn
A baby born in New Jersey grows and takes on the characteristics of a headstrong Russian woman.
Stan's Report
Glen Pourciau • AGNI
Tension between two co-workers turns into a complicated game of lies and intentions.
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The Tiger Cure
One man’s experience with a sex surrogate in gay-conversion therapy.
The War for Nigeria
How sectarian violence has made life in northern Nigeria “incomprehensibly frightful.”
Up Against the Centerfold
What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969.
Body on the Moor
Why did a man travel 200 miles to die in a national park?
"The Promise"
On Bruce Springsteen’s song, and growing up in a factory town.
The Internet's Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail
A master troll on trial in New Jersey.
The Strawberry Girls
Life as a pageant queen in Plant City, Florida.
The Spy Who Came Home
Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.
Behind the Scenes at Rotten Tomatoes
What happens when humans, not algorithms, are in charge.
Radio Killed the Political Star
“Successful brand identities in the House and on talk radio have never before relied on such similar skill sets — there has never been so much politics in media, and media in politics.”
The Tom Bissell Archive
From video games to Chuck Lorre, traveling in Vietnam to the Loch Ness monster, Bissell’s stories on Longform.
Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
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.
The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell
Ever since childhood, Brian Regan had been made to feel stupid because of his severe dyslexia. So he thought no one would suspect him of stealing secrets.
On the Analyst's Couch with David Cronenberg
"Of course, sexuality has never only been about reproduction, obviously, with human beings, anyway. But at the moment it's almost cut free to kind of float wherever it will float. And sexuality has been mixed with many things that I think the ancients would have been surprised to find it mixed with."
The Search For Nadia
Three years after her gold-medal performance – and amidst rumors of a fall from grace – the author travels to Transylvania to track down gymnast Nadia Comaneci. He also enjoys several drinks with her coach, Bela Karolyi.
Part of our Olympics primer, on the Longform blog.
You Are the Product
A critique of Facebook.
The Mercenary
Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.
Game of Fear
A man felt wronged by his ex-girlfriend, a video game designer. So he published a 9,425-word online screed with “each component designed to be as damaging to [her] as possible.” It sparked the online fire known as “Gamergate.”
The Designers and the Don
How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.
The Plot to Kill the Olympics
Can the International Swimming League take on the IOC and Vladimir Putin?
