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Adventures in public speaking.
Rachel Aviv The Believer Feb 2007 20min Permalink
Inside the Quidditch World Cup.
Eric Hansen Outside Jun 2012 20min Permalink
Kevin Fulton, a spy planted in the IRA, thought he was dead when he faced interrogation by a notorious IRA enforcer. But, it turned out, the enforcer was also an agent. How British intelligence undermined the IRA.
Matthew Teague The Atlantic Apr 2006 25min Permalink
The latest WikiLeaks unveiling has exposed more than 250,000 sensitive messages from American diplomats. Among the revelations: the plan for a unified Korea, the Chinese government’s hacking strategy, and negotiations with countries for housing Gitmo detainees.
Andrew W. Lehren, Scott Shane New York Times Nov 2010 15min Permalink
What Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic. “The Serbs are not the usual highly paid consultants in suits from wealthy countries; they look more like, well, cocky students. They bring a cowboy swagger. They radiate success. Everyone they teach wants to do what the Serbs did.”
Tina Rosenberg Foreign Policy Feb 2011 Permalink
The trouble with the all-but-obligatory networking site, “an Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder.”
Ann Friedman The Baffler Sep 2013 15min Permalink
The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States?
James Fallows The Atlantic Nov 2016 20min Permalink
An essay on wielding the scythe.
Paul Kingsnorth Orion Jan 2012 35min Permalink
The Estonia was carrying 989 passengers when it sank in 30-foot seas on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. More than 850 lost their lives. The ones who survived acted quickly and remained calm.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic May 2004 35min Permalink
Scenes from the California drought.
Alan Heathcock Matter Sep 2014 15min Permalink
The Wikipedia origin story.
Walter Isaacson The Daily Beast Oct 2014 20min Permalink
A father, his dying son, and the quest to make the most profound video game ever.
Jason Tanz Wired Jan 2016 10min Permalink
When she died in 1952, author Margaret Wise Brown left the rights to Goodnight Moon to a nine-year-old neighbor named Albert Clarke. The book became a classic. Clarke, living entirely off the royalties, became a deadbeat.
Joshua Prager The Wall Street Journal Sep 2000 15min Permalink
Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry—infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Sep 2018 30min Permalink
A profile.
Laura Snapes The Guardian Sep 2018 25min Permalink
An interview with Allee Willis, the late songwriter behind Earth Wind & Fire’s “September” and the Friends theme song, on creating the world you want to live and work in and throwing virtual parties.
Allee Willis, Mark McNeill The Creative Independent Jan 2020 10min Permalink
Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant’s hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.
Erika Hayasaki New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 25min Permalink
How did the most wanted man in America, the serial bomber behind the Atlanta Olympics explosion, survive for five years in the North Carolina woods? And was he helped?
Bruce Barcott Outside Sep 2003 15min Permalink
Rebellious teens on the Sunset Strip.
Reprinted by Longform and available online in full for the first time, this article also appears in Adler's new collection, After the Tall Timber.
Renata Adler New Yorker Feb 1967 30min Permalink
The volcanic ash cloud from Eyjafjallajokull has caused travel chaos and misery. But we were lucky. An eruption in the future could wipe out the human race.
Simon Winchester The Guardian Apr 2010 10min Permalink
Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.
Wes Ferguson Texas Monthly Oct 2019 30min Permalink
For 45 years, , Harmony Audio Video, has been my dad’s life: the reason he left home early every day, the reason he was chronically late to pick me up from school, the reason he didn’t take a single vacation for 25 years.
Francesca Mari The Atlantic Dec 2020 Permalink
The writer and his oldest friends reunited to mourn the ones they lost—and honor the time they have left.
Mitchell S. Jackson The New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
The Grateful Dead’s afterlife.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Nov 2012 50min Permalink
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How the little known $50/bottle champagne Antique Gold became the $300/bottle Armand de Brignac that Jay-Z “happened upon in a wine shop” and then featured in a video.
Zack O'Malley Greenburg The Atlantic Mar 2011 10min Permalink