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The Four Seasons restaurant rose to fame as a place to cut deals and be seen. Then its chauvinistic ways – and, specifically, those of its owner – caught up with it.
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The Four Seasons restaurant rose to fame as a place to cut deals and be seen. Then its chauvinistic ways – and, specifically, those of its owner – caught up with it.
Robert Draper GQ Sep 2015 10min Permalink
How the Mast Brothers fooled people into paying $10 a bar for mediocre chocolate, and how a food blogger was able to figure it out.
Deena Shanker Quartz Dec 2015 10min Permalink
A group of scientists started tracking thousands of British children born during one cold March week in 1946. Those children are now 65 and the data generated through careful tracking of their life history has become extremely valuable.
Helen Pearson Nature Mar 2011 15min Permalink
In June, 1942, a German submarine dropped four young Nazi agents off on a Florida beach. Their mission was to blow up bridges, factories, and Jewish-owned department stores. Among them was Herbert Haupt, the 22-year-old son of a German-American family in Chicago.
Richard Cahan Chicago Magazine Feb 2002 Permalink
With a brutal cancer prognosis, a woman learns to live on borrowed time.
Marjorie Williams Vanity Fair Oct 2005 45min Permalink
The transcript of chats between Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht and a man he believes to be a Hell’s Angel who agrees to supply “hitters” to carry out 5 assassinations.
Andy Greenberg Wired Feb 2015 25min Permalink
Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.
Laura Bassett Huffington Post May 2015 30min Permalink
Over at Readability, our editors highlight the best classic stories that resurfaced on Longform this year. See their picks.
A group of teens allegedly create a violent game with a simple premise: “to knock out a stranger with a single punch.”
Todd C. Frankel The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar 2012 15min Permalink
In 1963, William Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Hattie Carroll and then immortalized – and somewhat defamed – by Bob Dylan. What’s he been up to since then?
Ian Frazier Mother Jones Nov 2004 15min Permalink
“I didn’t realize who my father was. So it didn’t make a whole lot of difference. I wasn’t there believing that I was receiving genius from on high. My father was my father.”
Alexandra Jaffe The Hairpin May 2012 10min Permalink
A Hollywood screenwriter finds out his identity’s been stolen when a hooker calls–from his private office–demanding to be paid for the sex they didn’t just have.
Josh Friedman Huck's Blog Jul 2010 15min Permalink
Far outside of Juarez, villagers in rural areas are trapped without supplies or protection as rival cartels attempt to starve each other out of ranch hideouts. A heavily armed convoy attempts to deliver pensions behind siege lines.
Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Oct 2010 Permalink
The cop says she nabbed an online sexual predator. He says he was just willing to chat whatever it took to get laid in real life. Their story, from both perspectives.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2009 35min Permalink
The history of a Japanese archipelago and its inhabitants, through rebellions and famine, a 20th century exodus for prostitution work across Asia, and finally depopulation and isolation.
Richard Hendy Spike Japan Nov 2010 25min Permalink
Arnold Weiss escaped Germany as a kid in 1938, leaving his family behind. He returned seven years later, now a U.S. intelligence officer tasked with tracking down fugitive Nazis. The ultimate revenge story.
Matthew Brzezinski Washington Post Jul 2005 35min Permalink
Sheryl Waldman lived a reclusive life with her sister, Lynda, in their family’s old home. Over the years she faded from view until she vanished, and no one seemed to notice—until one cold evening last December.
Patricia Wen Boston Globe Mar 2017 20min Permalink
Once a Red Sox hero, Curt Schilling’s loud climb towards right-wing media fame may have cost him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He doesn’t care.
Timothy Bella Esquire Jun 2017 Permalink
Christian Longo brutally murdered his familyand then posed in Mexico as a New York Times reporter named Michael Finkel. From death row, Longo asked the real Finkel to attend his execution.
Michael Finkel Esquire Dec 2009 1h Permalink
“Love you when you hate us,” Rock proclaims with arms spread. “Welcome to the greatest fuckin’ show on Earth.”
Jerilyn Jordan Detroit Metro Times Sep 2017 25min Permalink
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Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.
Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Jan 2018 15min Permalink
As it scrambled to compete, the tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias.
Peter Gosselin, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Mar 2018 35min Permalink
How one of New York’s major trash haulers does business.
Kiera Feldman ProPublica Jun 2018 30min Permalink
The author survives a bite by a venomous snake in a remote area of Yosemite National Park.
My leg, from toe to hip, turned black and yellow and eventually swelled to 24 inches, more than twice its normal circumference.
Kyle Dickman Outside Jun 2018 25min Permalink
Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.
Jeanne Marie Laskas The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink