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Three climbing superstars attacked by mob of sherpas on Everest at 21,000ft—forced to flee for their lives.

Relatives of Marathon bombing suspects worried that older brother was corrupting ‘sweet’ younger sibling

This story was written by Jenna Russell, Jenn Abelson, Patricia Wen, Michael Rezendes, and David Filipov of the Globe Staff. The two young brothers from Cambridge seemed to be on promising paths, one…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3368 words)

Lou Reed: The Rolling Stone Interview

Lou Reed on the cover of Rolling Stone. Mark Seliger
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1203 words)

Columbia Journalism Review - The Audit

Posted on Thursday Jan 17th at 3:11pm By Dean StarkmanNo one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you…
SOURCE:m.cjr.org
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1203 words)

The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

On the morning of July 30, 2012, an accountant named Michel Gauvreau arrived at the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, housed in a huge red brick warehouse on the side of the Trans-Canadian…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3073 words)

A Pickpocket’s Tale

A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a…
AUTHOR:Adam Green
PUBLISHED: Jan. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1009 words)

The Top Ten New Yorker Stories of 2012

Here’s one last exercise in democracy for 2012: a collection of the most popular magazine stories on the site this year, as determined by the combined clicks of the Internet electorate.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (575 words)

Top Science Longreads of 2012 – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

Ignore the tedious pundits bloviating about shrunken attention spans. There has never been a better time to immerse yourself in long, deep, rich science reporting. Here’s a list of my 12 top…
AUTHOR:Ed Yong
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1432 words)

The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)
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