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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

Tour Bus Confidential: Behind Music's Bumpy Road Show

Once invited to party with their employers, today's long-haul bus drivers are taken for granted and under threat of extinction as the the music industry continues to slash costs. DAVID PEISNER meets…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (606 words)

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How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick

James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He’s been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It’s a pretty low-stress…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4954 words)

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

Don Johnson finds it hard to remember the exact cards. Who could? At the height of his 12-hour blitz of the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, last April, he was playing a hand of…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3906 words)

When Barbara Jean Was Missing

LENGTH: 15 minutes (3840 words)

James M. Cain's 'Paradise'

PARADISEI shall attempt, in this piece, an appraisal of the civilization of Southern California, but it occurs to me that before I begin I had better give you some idea what the place looks like. If…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9585 words)

Fighting + Otherwise, Part 1

In January of 2010, Neil Chamberlain left Brooklyn for a three-month tour of Muay Thai boxing camps in Thailand.  While abroad he kept an online chronicle of his experiences that was followed…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3223 words)

Our Top Longreads of 2011

Mental Floss Editors: Our Top Longreads of 2011 The editors of mental_floss magazine: Mangesh Hattikudur, Ethan Trex, Stephanie Meyers, and Jessanne Collins. They’re also on Twitter and
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LENGTH: 2 minutes (570 words)
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