Heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships

As early as 1948, the Oscars sucked.

The long fight against racism in romance novels.

How COVID-19 is changing the American restaurant industry.

Can genetic engineering bring back the American Chestnut?

A non-fiction comic on the evolution of military and civilian style amid the ‘forever war.’

How the Republican party offered a home to the Proud Boys.

The writer investigates her brother’s death, their complicated relationship, and the disturbing mysteries he left behind.

Deep in the jungle, the tourists were targetted, but only the porters were hacked by the machetes. Was it a robbery? Or a deeper pattern of violence amongst ancient tribes?

Among the Sasquatch-searchers.

The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.

Encounters with the sea.

The creators of some of the most distinctive craft beers in the world are identical twins from Denmark. They also can’t stand each other.

Previously: Jonah Weiner on the Longform Podcast.

An investigation into the disappearance of a 24-year-old British cruise ship activity director from the Disney Wonder opens the strange and insular world of cruise employees, who vanish mysteriously at alarming rates.

The artist at 85.

On the rodeo.

The women would walk 10 miles from the village to the meat packing plants. Their pay supported drunk husbands and hungry children. When they were told to stop, they broke with tradition and went to the law.

On the trail of a group of thieves stealing the fanciest wine out of San Francisco’s fanciest restaurants.

An $140 million blockbuster written and funded by a billionaire, ‘Empires of the Deep’ was supposed to be China’s ‘Avatar,’ featuring mermaids, Greek warriors, pirates, sea monsters, and an even international stars.

Six years after being filmed, the movie has never seen the light of day.

Writing The Art of the Deal made Tony Schwartz rich. He still regrets it.

“We’re the fucking establishment now. You and I. We’re not…” the young red hat, encircled by his squad, pantomimed the old establishment with a swaying, limp-wristed dance. “We won. Fuck them.”

“I had inherited a Rolodex full of useful phone numbers (the College Board, a helpful counselor in the UCLA admissions office), but the number I kept handing out was that of a family therapist.”

Inside the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, the first Covid-19 hot spot in the U.S., where 46 people associated with the nursing home died.

The evolution of cheating in chess.

Adventures in public speaking.