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Navigating life as a brilliant teenage girl.
David Finkel Washington Post Jun 1993 30min Permalink
America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.
Lauren Hilgers New Yorker Oct 2014 25min Permalink
How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min
Inside the underground economy of stolen bikes.
Patrick Symmes Outside Jan 2012 25min
A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.
Brian Boucher New York Jan 2006 15min
An early investigation of “Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff.
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Oct 2009 30min
How Craigslist dealers do business.
David Shapiro, Joe Coscarelli The Village Voice Apr 2011 15min
Jan 2006 – Aug 2013 Permalink
On boxer Canelo Alvarez.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Sep 2012 Permalink
On Lance Armstrong’s return to racing after cancer.
Michael Specter New Yorker Jul 2002 35min Permalink
On a 1955 ferris wheel accident.
Robert Draper Texas Monthly Oct 2005 25min Permalink
Tracking Spalding Grey’s descent towards suicide.
Oliver Sacks New Yorker Apr 2015 15min Permalink
A father and his daughter’s brain tumor.
Aleksandar Hemon New Yorker Jun 2011 25min Permalink
From Joe Paterno to coal miners, the rodeo to fruit pickers, our story picks by the GQ correspondent.
Laskas on Longform.
An ode to mayonnaise.
Rick Bragg Gourmet Nov 2010 10min Permalink
A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection.
Mujib Mashal Harper's Jan 2014 25min Permalink
A wandering long-distance canoeist goes missing.
Ben McGrath New Yorker Dec 2015 40min Permalink
Why didn’t we?
Evan Ratliff Wired Jun 2020 30min Permalink
The stories that sprung up around if not quite about Trump were as brutal and lazy as the man himself; they teased themselves endlessly from one episode to the next, building toward a brutal grand finale in which America’s heroes would murder its villains, on TV, at some time to-be-determined.
David Roth Defector Jan 2021 10min Permalink
How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.
Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.
Elon Green The Awl Jul 2013 15min Permalink
How Leo Sharp got busted.
Sam Dolnick New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 25min Permalink
On driving (and walking) in the Middle East – from Syria to Lebanon, across Saudi Arabia to Dammam, in a taxi through war-torn Beirut.
Nathan Deuel The Morning News Oct 2013 10min Permalink
What happens in the classroom when a state begins to evaluate all teachers, at every grade level, based on how well they “grow” their students’ test scores? Colorado is about to find out.
Dana Goldstein The American Prospect Apr 2011 20min Permalink
How a musical subculture evolved alongside a technological subculture:
Rave's rise mirrors the Web's in many ways. Both mixed rhetorical utopianism with insider snobbery. Both were future-forward "free spaces" with special appeal to geeks and wonks.
Michaelangelo Matos NPR Jul 2011 15min Permalink
One day you’re teaching yourself to play the piano in hotel lobbies, the next you’re contributing a song to a David Lynch soundtrack.
Tal Rosenberg Chicago Reader Feb 2015 15min Permalink
“The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t.” –Steve Jobs, 1996
Raffaello Follieri was young, handsome. He was Italian. He was dating Anne Hathaway, hobnobbing with Bill Clinton, and using contacts at the Vatican to launch a lucrative business in the States. Then he was in jail.
Michael Shnayerson Vanity Fair Oct 2008 40min Permalink
If your ex-spouse takes your child and hightails it abroad, the legal system often isn’t on your side. So what can you do? One option: hire a former Army ranger named Gus Zamora to take back your kid.
Nadya Labi The Atlantic Nov 2009 35min Permalink
DecorMyEyes is a online eyewear store with an unusual business plan; the owner harasses and intimidates customers who complain in order to get negative reviews posted across the web, in turn making his website more visible to Google searchers.
David Segal New York Times Nov 2010 Permalink
On the story we tell ourselves about artificial intelligence.
Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Oct 2016 30min Permalink