The Ceasefire Babies was what they called us. Those too young to remember the worst of the terror because we were either in nappies or just out of them when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was called. I was four, Jonny was three. We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us.
“Any North Korean knows that escaping their nation is nearly impossible.”
Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.
The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.
People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect.
This article, which was #1 on Longform’s top articles of 2018 list, just won the National Magazine Award for feature writing. Hear Batuman discuss it on the Longform Podcast.
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When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better.
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The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching.
Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.
In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.
Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.
“It’s not like there’s a textbook or some guidebook that teaches you how to behave or how to react when your husband becomes an exile.”
How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
The parallel lives of a KGB defector and his CIA handler.
The excerpts from a diary of an anonymous Russian special-forces officer who served twenty tours of duty in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War (1999-2009).
How we respond to the rules of the road offers insight into being human.
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Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.
On the true backstory of Meghan Markle, a.k.a. the Duchess of Sussex.
On space rocks and the people who chase them.
The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.
