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One woman’s hunt for possibility after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
N.R. Kleinfeld New York Times Apr 2016 1h25min Permalink
Lenny Pozner used to believe in conspiracy theories. Until his son’s death became one.
Reeves Wiedeman New York Sep 2016 25min Permalink
A presidential historian interviews a president focused on history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Barack Obama Vanity Fair Sep 2016 30min Permalink
On light pollution and a place called Gerlach.
Oliver Roeder FiveThirtyEight Feb 2017 20min Permalink
“An idea too good not to believe.”
Jesse Singal New York May 2017 25min Permalink
One in three families can’t afford diapers. Why are they so expensive?
KATHLEEN McGRORY Tampa Bay Times Mar 2018 15min Permalink
On plagues, parasitic mind control, and magical thinking.
Elisa Gabbert Real Life Sep 2018 20min Permalink
On growing up, writing, and succumbing to bullshit.
Sarah Miller Popula Sep 2018 20min Permalink
Should art be a battleground for social justice?
Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 20min Permalink
Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers.
Will Evans Reveal Nov 2018 30min Permalink
It was Hell.
Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Feb 2019 20min Permalink
A graveyard, a stutter, and Ray-Bans.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jul 2013 25min Permalink
A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill—rats.
Sarah Gilman Hakai Magazine Aug 2019 20min Permalink
There’s only ever so much you can control at any job.
David Roth Hazlitt Dec 2019 15min Permalink
On hometowns.
Dana Liebelson Insider May 2020 20min Permalink
Inside an IRL cult built on Facebook memes and semen-drinking.
Emilie Friedlander, Joy Crane OneZero Jun 2020 Permalink
Blast, impact, trauma, and everything that comes after traumatic brain injury.
Worth Parker, Dr. Rachel Lance Tasks & Purpose May 2021 30min Permalink
On losing a brother and trying to get him home.
Their partnership lasted a mere four years, but transformed comedy forever. Mike Nichols and Elaine may give their first joint interview since breaking up 51 years ago.
Sam Kashner, Mike Nichols, Elaine May Vanity Fair Dec 2012 30min Permalink
It’s a sham known as “sewer service.” When process servers regularly fail to deliver summonses, it leads to to automatic evictions for unwitting tenants.
Josh Kaplan DCist Oct 2020 35min Permalink
The legacy of Barry Levinson’s 1982 movie Diner.
S.L. Price Vanity Fair Mar 2012 30min Permalink
The author on his mother’s deteriorating health and the “price of longevity.”
Michael Wolff New York May 2012 25min 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
Diamond heists, LonelyGirl15, and a trip to compete in the U.S. Open sumo championships—Joshua Davis on Longform.
Along for the ride with a boatload of refugees risking their lives.
The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.
Heartbreak at the edge of the earth.
Ariel Levy New Yorker 15min
“Oh, my God. This is going to be a huge one.”
“Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia? Nobody. Nobody could have expected it, or be expecting it. It’s a surprise, to us all. The Embassy of Cambodia!”
Zadie Smith New Yorker 35min
Why medical bills are killing us. [sub req’d]