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A threat of cancer, a drastic decision

MY dad did everything he could to look his best that morning. He shaved, brushed his hair and changed into a clean shirt.I stepped into his room, where he lay on his bed, propped up with pillows. His…
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2007
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3436 words)

Waiting for death, alone and unafraid

The silence of night never lasts long. It ends somewhere in the 5 o'clock hour with the purring of the heater and distant strains of Sam Cooke.Edwin Shneidman looks at the clock -- an hour and a half…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2009
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2077 words)

Our Radical Future: Cults, Utopias and Rebellions of the 1890s

Canudos, the holy city. From the hills it had looked like a mirage. Fifty-two hundred mud huts and a handful of white-washed churches spread along a bend in the Vasa-Barris, where a few years before…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3658 words)
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A bond stronger than bars

The summer after her first year of law school, Pamela Dowden dug a red calico sundress out of her closet and left her apartment in Sacramento. It was a hot, shadeless morning. She drove her orange…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 30, 2008
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3634 words)

The Master

Robert Berman’s English class was a “cult of personality,” one student said. “There was so much desire to please.” Illustration by Owen Freeman.
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 50 minutes (12694 words)

Creating the All-Terrain Human

Kilian Jornet, who has won dozens of mountain footraces up to 100 miles in length and six world titles in Skyrunning. Kilian Jornet Burgada is the most dominating endurance athlete of
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (836 words)

A Tale of Two Londons

Who really lives at One Hyde Park, called the world’s most expensive residential building? Its mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens, provide a portrait of…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6084 words)

Requiem for a Dream

“This, I suppose, is the actual problem,” Swartz wrote, long before his suicide. “I feel my existence is an imposition on the planet.” Illustration by Michael Gillette. HE…
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10972 words)

Which Long Magazine Profiles of Aaron Swartz Should You Bother to Read?

Both the New Yorker and The Atlantic published long stories about the late 26-year-old computer whiz Aaron Swartz today. These join lengthy profiles from New York, Rolling Stone, Slate, The Verge and…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (817 words)
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