ARCHIVE:
Longform
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The Longform Guide to Airplanes
Air-traffic controllers, renegade airlines, and (of course) crashes—great stories about flying.
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The Longform Guide to Space
Sex, a celebrity astrophysicist, and the Columbia disaster—great stories about space.
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The Longform Guide to Commencement Addresses
Sheryl Sandberg, David Foster Wallace, Jon Stewart—the best graduation speeches of the past 25 years.
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The Longform Guide to Gambling
Casinos, bingo parlors, and the best and worst bettors in the world—great stories about gambling.
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The Longform Guide to Restaurants
The mania of David Chang, the secret to McDonald’s fries, how to bribe a maitre d’—great stories about the restaurant business.
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The Longform Guide to Coming Out
Powerful, personal tales of people going public with their sexual orientation.
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The Longform Guide to Fatherhood
Amazing stories about hero dads, evil dads, and a few dads in between.
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The Tiger Who Fought Back
The Longform guide to the most gripping and horrifying articles ever written about animal attacks.
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Remembering Sidd Finch
Longform’s April Fools’ Day guide to hoaxes, pranks, and outright fabrications.
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“He Was Scum.”
Longform collects the most moving, delightful, and vicious obituaries ever written.
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The Longform Guide to Early Computing
As the new iPad debuts, a look back at the greatest stories ever written about the first computers.
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The Longform Guide to Skip Hollandsworth
The best pieces from Texas’ master of true crime.
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The Longform Guide to Missing Persons
The most chilling stories ever written about people who disappeared.
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The Longform Guide to Anthony Shadid
Some of the greatest dispatches from one of America’s greatest foreign correspondents.
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The Longform Guide to “Anonymous”
Cheaters, real estate agents, and Tamil Tigers: Great magazine stories writers wouldn’t, or couldn’t, take credit for.
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The Longform Guide to Facebook
The best stories about Mark Zuckerberg and his company.
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The Longform Guide to Saturday Night Live
Amazing stories about life on set and life after the show, from Belushi to Fey.
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The Hunt for Mengele’s Skull
Longform’s guide to the best stories ever written about war criminals on the lam.
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The Longform Guide to the Campaign Trail
Great stories from Joan Didion, DFW, and others about the art of campaigning.
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Longform’s Top 10 Stories of 2011
The best overall long-form articles published this year.
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Longform’s Guide to the Best Business Stories of 2011
Postal service woes, strip mall casinos, and more great writing about money.
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Longform’s Best Writing About Sex in 2011
Ted Haggard’s second coming, the end of marriage and monogamy, and other great stories about sex.
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Longform’s Guide to the Best War Stories of 2011
From Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya, amazing stories from the world’s battlefields.
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Longform’s Guide to the Best Science Writing of 2011
A scientific look into the minds of criminals … and octupuses.