The Eco–Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn
How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?
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How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?
Bridget Read The Cut Aug 2020 25min Permalink
Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Sep 2020 20min Permalink
A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink
Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Joshua Hammer GQ Jan 2021 30min Permalink
A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Oct 2019 20min Permalink
He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.
Emily Kaplan Guernica Mar 2021 30min Permalink
Growth has slowed to a trickle in parts of Manchuria—but some young people are finding new careers online.
Tom Hancock Financial Times Apr 2019 15min Permalink
Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force.
Erica Lenti Xtra Sep 2021 Permalink
A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.
Dan Brooks New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 15min Permalink
How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.
Yehuda Koren, Eilat Negev The Guardian Mar 2013 10min Permalink
What it’s like to work for, compete against, and find out you’re the biological father of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. An excerpt from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.
Brad Stone Businessweek Oct 2013 30min Permalink
“‘When I heard the facts,” says Matt Kull, one of DiPaolo’s former climbing partners, “I thought, That’s what Dave is capable of.’”
Sid Balman Jr. Outside Feb 2014 10min Permalink
In the city of Rosario, some fans have evolved into a mafia with an illicit cash flow and a stable of hit men. A look inside their homicidal turf war.
Amos Barshad The Fader Jun 2016 25min Permalink
For decades, “trimmigrants” have flooded California’s Emerald Triangle during harvest season in search of highly paid seasonal work. In the isolation of the dense forest, sexual assault is commonplace and rarely investigated.
Shoshana Walter Reveal Sep 2016 35min Permalink
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The dangerous corporate ethos of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who is on trial after an explosion at one of his mines killed 29.
Tim Murphy Mother Jones Nov 2015 35min Permalink
When cops kill civilians, their union is on hand to defend them. In many cases this has come at the expense of the truth.
Yana Kunichoff, Sam Stecklow Chicago Reader Feb 2016 25min Permalink
Memories of the author’s teenage years, when his father pulled up stakes on a comfortable life in Baltimore to reinvent himself as the head of a S&L bank in Los Angeles.
Eric Puchner GQ Mar 2011 20min Permalink
Just after midnight, Rye police arrived to bust a house full of partying teenagers. The kids refused to unlock the door, and parents and cops flooded the street. A minute-by-minute account of the standoff.
David Amsden New York May 2005 15min Permalink
Perhaps you didn’t know that in addition to being a very funny writer, Kafka’s life yields a lot of comedy too.
Rivka Galchen London Review of Books Dec 2014 15min Permalink
He was a fixture in the kitchen of one of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurants, with plans to move to New York City to further his career. Then he robbed a bank.
Allecia Vermillion Seattle Met Mar 2015 20min Permalink
The melancholy comedy of the silent screen star.
Charles Simic The Daily Beast Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Over at Readability, our editors highlight the best classic stories that resurfaced on Longform this year. See their picks.
In the British sport of “ferret legging,” underwear-less competitors tie their trousers at the ankles, stuff a pair of the carnivores down there, and hold on for as long as possible. Reg Mellor is the world’s best.
Donald Katz Outside Oct 1987 10min Permalink
The narcocorrido-immortalized Pacific coast traditionalists, the kidnap-crazed Gulf coast Zetas, and massacres that no longer seem tied to a discernible purpose; inside the ruins of the Mexican-American border.
Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2010 20min Permalink