In Which We Are Back In Nigeria Now
On returning to Lagos after years abroad.
It is always understood when you leave Nigeria as a Nigerian that you will return at some point.
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The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
The rise and fall of the Internet mogul.
The Long, Lawless Ride of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
A profile of “not just the toughest but the most corrupt and abusive sheriff in America.”
The True Story of the Manson Murders
An excerpt from the best-selling true crime book of all time.
Raiders of the Lost Web
How a Pulitzer-finalist, 34-part-series of investigative journalism vanishes from the internet.
The Secret History of FEMA
The origins of the misunderstood agency.
The Ghosts of the Orphanage
Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn’t make it out alive.
Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the ’80s
The fabled venue where the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Prince emerged.
For families without options, that cheap motel may be their last resort
How the Mosley Motel, off U.S. 19 in Florida, became the temporary home to at least 27 families turned away from full shelters.
God’s Plan for Mike Pence
Inside the Vice President’s gamble on Donald Trump.
Outcasts: Inmates of the Black Eagle
Russia has ended its death penalty, leaving in its place five prison “colonies” to house its most hardened criminals, nicknamed “The White Swan”, “The Black Dolphin”, “The Vologda Coin”, “The Village of Harps”. Inside “The Black Eagle.”
Inside the Fall of the CDC
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
The Most Popular Articles of the Week
A professional quarterback who lost a battle with his weight, a hermit who lived off the grid for nearly 30 years and a spy who went far too far — the week's top stories on Longform.
Taken for a Ride: Temp Agencies and Raiteros in Immigrant Chicago
How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.
One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid for It
How a burglary, social media and politics led to a Nooksack Tribal Councilwoman being bullied out of office.
Soho House Is Ready for Our Hedonistic, Champagne-Soaked Post-Pandemic Boom
A socially starved world might just be the best thing ever to happen to the private club empire — which is about to IPO.
The Siege of Fulton Avenue
Just after midnight, Rye police arrived to bust a house full of partying teenagers. The kids refused to unlock the door, and parents and cops flooded the street. A minute-by-minute account of the standoff.
The Murderers of Mexico
The narcocorrido-immortalized Pacific coast traditionalists, the kidnap-crazed Gulf coast Zetas, and massacres that no longer seem tied to a discernible purpose; inside the ruins of the Mexican-American border.
The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet
Bill Landreth was one of the whiz kids, poking around Pentagon servers with the friends he had never met. But one of them was an FBI informant.
My Family Story of Love, the Mob, and Government Surveillance
In the early 1960s, the paranoid Hoffa asked Chuckie to buy thousands of copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and distribute them to union locals around the country. “Some of these poor guys, the only thing they knew was how to drive a truck or work at a warehouse,” Chuckie told me. “They didn’t have the knowledge of the electronic shit. Mr. Hoffa wanted them to read that book and said that this is what’s going to happen to not only us but to everybody—and exactly what he’s predicted has happened.”
Elif Batuman is a novelist and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her latest article is “Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry.”
“I hear novelists say things sometimes like the character does something they don’t expect. It’s like talking to people who have done ayahuasca or belong to some cult. That’s how I felt about it until extremely recently. All of these people have drunk some kind of Kool Aid where they’re like, ‘I’m in this trippy zone where characters are doing things.’ And I would think to myself, if they were men—Wow, this person has devised this really ingenious way to avoid self-knowledge. If they were women, I would think—Wow, this woman has found an ingenious way to become complicit in her own bullying and silencing. It’s only kind of recently—and with a lot of therapy actually—that I’ve come to see that there is a mode of fiction that I can imagine participating in where, once I’ve freed myself of a certain amount of stuff I feel like I have to write about, which has gotten quite large by this point, it would be fun to make things up and play around.”
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Portrait of the Consummate Con Man
“On a small scale, Titanic Thompson is an American legend. I say on a small scale, because an overpowering majority of the public has never heard of him. That is the way Titanic likes it. He is a professional gambler. He has sometimes been called the gambler’s gambler.”
The Secret Life of Max Stern
The Nazis stole his family’s paintings, but Max Stern escaped and became one of Canada’s leading art dealers. Now, 20 after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution.
The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld
“Unfortunately, after having spent 33 hours over the course of a year interviewing Mr. Rumsfeld, I fear I know less about the origins of the Iraq war than when I started.”
The Aftershocks of a Tea-Party Suicide
How a bid to unseat Senator Thad Cochran led to an illegal photo in a nursing home, a flurry of arrests, and the death of the man who brought the Tea Party to Mississippi.
