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Frank Deford, 1938-2017
Five of our favorite articles by the longtime Sports Illustrated writer, who died Sunday.
How to Sell a Billion-Dollar Myth Like a French Girl
On the business of an idea.
Ken Burns's American Canon
A profile of the documentary filmmaker.
Greta Gerwig’s Radical Confidence
A profile of the Lady Bird director.
Bill Browder, Putin Enemy No. 1
How an American-born businessman became an enemy of the Russian state.
If These Walls Could Talk
The strange history of border fortifications.
“This Is Bigger Than Myself”
How the women of U.S. Gymnastics found their voice.
Trouble in Lakewood
How a once idyllic postwar town fell under the sway of a teen-age gang.
Bastard
“Neither of my parents was exactly who I thought they were.”
News To Me
What the author learned about himself from Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth.
Who Was Lil Tay
The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
The psychology behind our limitations of reason.
Joe Exotic
A dark journey Into the world of a man gone wild.
We a Baddd People
A grandmother’s tale of the night her first love had to leave town.
Bong Joon-ho’s Dystopia Is Already Here
A profile of the Korean director.
How Herpes Became a Sexual Boogeyman
The origins of a misplaced panic.
What Do We Want History to Do to Us?
On Kara Walker.
There Is Only Urgency
Inside the National Quarantine Center, there Is no fear of Coronavirus.
Betting It All on 311
Three nights with 311 in the waning moments of free American life.
What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind
On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.
Cut, Color, Compete
A trip to the “Olympics of hairdressing” with Team USA.
Killing Jared
A group of misfit boys from the fringes of Las Vegas form a clique. Then, with murky motives, they decide to murder one of their own and bury him in a desert pit.
"The kind of stories I've gotten to do have involved fulfilling my childhood fantasies of having an adventurous life. Even though I don't make a ton of money doing it, I've never felt like I was missing out on something."
Matthew Power, a freelance journalist and friend, died on assignment in Uganda on Monday.
Above is Matt's Longform Podcast, recorded in February 2013. Some of our favorite stories from his archive:
Confessions of a Drone Warrior (GQ • Oct 2013)
During his nearly six years in the Air Force, Airman First Class Brandon Bryant flew hundreds of missions and logged almost 6,000 hours of flight time. He killed or helped kill 1,626 people. And he never left Nevada.
Mississippi Drift (Harper's • Mar 2008)
An ill-fated trip down the river with a group of anarchists.
Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky (GQ • Mar 2013)
Navigating the sewers of London and summiting the peaks of Paris with a group of urban explorers.
Blood in the Sand (Outside • Jan 2014)
Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.
One More Martyr in a Dirty War (VQR • Jun 2007)
The life and death of Brad Will.
Lost in the Amazon (Men's Journal • Jun 2009)
One man's absurd quest to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River—floods, electric eels, and machete-wielding natives be damned.
David Carr, 1956-2015
David Carr, the New York Times media reporter and a friend, died Thursday night in the newsroom.
Here is one of our favorite Carr pieces, "Me and My Girls," an excerpt from his 2008 memoir The Night of the Gun.
