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Good Will Hunting: An Oral History

Fifteen years after the release of the movie that made them stars, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck—along with the rest of the cast and crew—reflect in their own words on how a long-shot film…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5338 words)

Literally

Illustration by Jeanne Detallante. “She’s always late!” the sixteen-year-old sobbed. She’d set up the ironing boar
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4970 words)

Four hours with John McAfee - FT.com

The meeting Belize City bus station is a small building set on a dusty street in the downtown area of the capital. Its only entrance gives on to a long and narrow waiting room with a spine of wooden…
SOURCE:www.ft.com
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3612 words)

How Qatar is taking on the world

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund owns 95% of the Shard in London, western Europe's tallest building. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA On Thursday evening Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who combines the…
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2127 words)

The New Republic of Porn

Stuart Lawley navigates Bear’s Club Drive in his midnight sapphire Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, a $464,000, 3-ton, 12-cylinder land yacht so well-engineered that ensconced in its…
PUBLISHED: June 21, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4614 words)

Disarming Viktor Bout

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about the arrest and trial of arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Describes Bout’s first major foray into the weapons business in 1995, when he transported weapons to…
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (558 words)

My Top 5 Longreads of 2011

Bethlehem Shoals: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Bethlehem Shoals is an editor at The Classical and the founder of FreeDarko.com. *** • “Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas,”…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 3 minutes (795 words)

the mobster who shopped his dad

It was a tattoo that almost got Frank Calabrese killed. He'd had it etched across his back while he was in Milan prison in Michigan: a large map of America over which prison bars have been…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 25, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3010 words)
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