Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.

How the CIA, under a program called MK-ULTRA, used a San Francisco apartment to dose johns with LSD.

Participating in the Dakar Rally.

The story of Nicole Davis, a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy.

A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay for it.

What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.

“What could possibly be funnier than depositing a perfectly ridiculous, obviously false, fake cheque?”

Paul Krugman breaks down the basics of climate change economics, from Arthur Cecil Pigou to Capitol Hill.

A writer for Conan O’Brien on how The Tonight Show really ended and on how his boss got screwed.

An emerging school of therapy says that scripting your dreams while awake could eliminate the worst ones. Not everyone thinks that’s healthy.

Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.

Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.

Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.

The author joins his father’s work crew, gutting out foreclosed houses in Florida and interviewing their former residents.

On public radio and the emerging genre of shows inspired by This American Life.

In Detroit, the aftermath of a reality-TV SWAT raid that killed a sleeping seven-year-old.

A profile of Yao Ming published during his second season in the NBA.

A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.

A profile of Esquire features writer Chris Jones. Plus: the Jones archive on Longform.org.

A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.

SNL in its grim twentieth season through the lens of first (and only) year cast-member Janeane Garofalo.

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?