The Girl Who Chased Frogs
Lyra McKee’s last story.
Lyra McKee’s last story.
Lyra McKee The Sunday Long Read May 2019 15min Permalink
The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.
Joel Gunter BBC May 2019 25min Permalink
Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing.
Lisa Song ProPublica May 2019 25min Permalink
When Spanish authorities sentenced this provocative musician to prison for “glorifying terrorism,” his dedicated fans helped him make a daring escape across the border.
Meg Bernhard Narratively May 2019 15min Permalink
On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.
William Prochnau Vanity Fair May 1998 20min Permalink
My wife is not a terrorist.
Matt Rivers, Lily Lee CNN May 2019 20min Permalink
What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.
Matthew Bremner The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink
Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.
Azam Ahmed New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink
Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2019 40min Permalink
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.
Lyra McKee Mosaic Jan 2016 15min Permalink
“Any North Korean knows that escaping their nation is nearly impossible.”
Doug Bock Clark GQ Mar 2019 30min Permalink
Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.
Matthew Bremner Men's Journal Mar 2019 25min Permalink
The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.
Rachel Nolan Harper's Mar 2019 30min Permalink
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.
Elif Batuman New Yorker Apr 2018 40min Permalink
In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.
Ed Caesar The New York Times Magazine Mar 2019 35min Permalink
It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”
Karan Mahajan Vanity Fair Mar 2019 25min Permalink
How anti-poaching funds end up in the hands of vicious paramilitaries.
Tom Warren, Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Mar 2019 Permalink
When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better.
In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”
Matthew Bremner Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2019 15min Permalink
The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching.
Tom Warren, Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed News Mar 2019 25min Permalink
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.
David Grann New Yorker Jan 2012 55min Permalink
In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.
Elena Nicolaou Refinery29 Feb 2019 15min Permalink
Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.
Adam Entous, Ronan Farrow New Yorker Feb 2019 35min Permalink
“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.”
Meg Bernhard The Sunday Long Read Jan 2019 20min Permalink
How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
Hannes Grassegger Buzzfeed, Das Magazin Jan 2019 20min Permalink