Best longform magazine articles

[bennymac]

I've been keeping a list of longform magazine/newspaper/online articles that I found intriguing and want to read again.

This one is the best I've read (with Snow Fall being a close second)

The Real Heroes Are Dead - by James B. Stewart
The New Yorker - February 11, 2002

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead

I'd be interested to hear what maggots think of this article. And what other articles stick out to them.

[iceman]

Pretty much every issue of The New Yorker has something long that's of value. Anything that John MacPhee has written for them, or earlier than that, EB White or Joseph Mitchell, is to be treasured. Anything new by Adam Gopnick these days is a real treat for me. For some reason this artice about the greatest bank robbers in US history has always stuck with me. If the one guy hadn't told his girlfriend about it they'd probably still be out there doing it.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/07/08/the-trenchcoat-robbers

[dunfree]

https://thebrowser.com/

has a collection of longform articles from generally good quality authors.

[concretejungle]

https://thebrowser.com/
has a collection of longform articles from generally good quality authors.

In the same vein longform.org

[seano732]

I love longform journalism...I have both longform.org and longreads app on the old IPad, and I actually read both of those ^^^^ New Yorker articles through those sites. Being a fireman, this one on the Worcester Cold Storage Fire is a scary, brutal read........Hits close to home.

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a1098/perfect-fire-0700/

RIP to the Worcester Six....

[bodywhomper]

Hesler's New Yorker articles when he was in China were always great.

[iceman]

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a1098/perfect-fire-0700/

RIP to the Worcester Six....

That one burned a hole in my brain at the time, good call.

[old goat]

Pretty much every issue of The New Yorker has something long that's of value. Anything that John MacPhee has written for them, or earlier than that, EB White or Joseph Mitchell, is to be treasured. Anything new by Adam Gopnick these days is a real treat for me. For some reason this artice about the greatest bank robbers in US history has always stuck with me. If the one guy hadn't told his girlfriend about it they'd probably still be out there doing it.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...chcoat-robbers

another vote for the New Yorker. And I enjoy Adam Gopnik, but I can only understand half of what he says. I think it's because he lived in France for a while--too much abstract thinking for my linear mind to grasp. One of the best things about the New Yorker is that the articles are written in the author's voice, not translated into house style a la Time, etc. So I keep reading Adam Gopnik.

[wyeaster]

Pretty much every issue of The New Yorker has something long that's of value. Anything that John MacPhee has written for them, or earlier than that, EB White or Joseph Mitchell, is to be treasured. Anything new by Adam Gopnick these days is a real treat for me. For some reason this artice about the greatest bank robbers in US history has always stuck with me. If the one guy hadn't told his girlfriend about it they'd probably still be out there doing it.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...chcoat-robbers

women!

[iceman]

women!

Right?!? Bitch ratted them out because she was mad at him.Yeesh.

[iceman]

another vote for the New Yorker. And I enjoy Adam Gopnik, but I can only understand half of what he says. I think it's because he lived in France for a while--too much abstract thinking for my linear mind to grasp. One of the best things about the New Yorker is that the articles are written in the author's voice, not translated into house style a la Time, etc. So I keep reading Adam Gopnik.

Well Gopnik (thanks for the spelling correction) grew up in Quebec and as you said lived in France for a long time, so of course he's weird. For whatever reason, I dig what he writes. It's possible I'm weird too.

[BmillsSkier]

I particularly like The Bitter Southerner. Really great writers and long essays, stories, and pieces about everything from authors to cooks to musicians to history - all with as they put it a bitter, progressive bent to the 'southern duality'.
Excellent photography as well.

It's web only but has been putting out great pieces every week since they started.

[frorider]

Gopnik is the mother fuckin man. In my circle of friends I have a reputation for finding fault with most fiction and non-fiction writers, but AG deserves his stellar reputation. Like Nabokov, he chooses words carefully, and tries to be evocative without piling on adjectives and cliches.

Since we're correcting spelling errors, Ice, it's spelled McPhee. I've liked his stuff for many years.

Just finished the article on Herbalife in the NYorker this morning. Straightforward journalism, nothing wrong about that, but this thread has reminded me that there are writers out there that really are worth savoring.

[frorider]

https://thebrowser.com/
has a collection of longform articles from generally good quality authors.

Thx for the link. I hadn't heard of it. Will use it for gift subscriptions.

[bluespark]

AMERICAN HIPPOPOTAMUS is the most fascinating article i've read in a long while, delving into some obscure history. Atavist has some gems if you poke around.

https://magazine.atavist.com/american-hippopotamus?no-overlay&preview

THE YANKEE COMANDANTE, another hidden history piece involving a gringo in Castro's revolution

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/28/the-yankee-comandante?currentPage=all