A young man becomes paralyzed in a shooting near his church, and struggles with identifying the shooter, whom he recognizes as a former classmate (link includes parts one and two): Surgeons had labored for five hours to patch his left lung, remove his left kidney and his spleen. They could do nothing to repair his […]
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“Deadhead.” —Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, on the recorded history of the Grateful Dead More from Paumgarten
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A group of young doctors from the Clinical Excellence Research Center at the Stanford School of Medicine are looking for new models to make health care better and more affordable: Patel was second up in the presentation, a little nervous and barely tall enough to be seen behind the podium. She stated the problem in […]
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“Brad And Angie Go To Meet The African Pee Generator Girls.” —Sarah Miller, The Awl More from The Awl
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“A Mormon Reporter on the Romney Bus.” —McKay Coppins, BuzzFeed More from BuzzFeed
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“A Chat with Writer Jon Ronson.” —Elise Czajkowski, The Awl Stories by Ronson on Longreads
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Dozens of reporters have been killed in Mexico over the last 12 years by drug traffickers, and very little has been done to investigate their deaths and bring the murderers to justice: Let us say that you are a Mexican reporter working for peanuts at a local television station somewhere in the provinces—the state of […]
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Longreads Member Exclusive: The Creature Beyond the Mountains
This week, we’re excited to share a Longreads Exclusive from Orion, a publication that has been featured on Longreads in the past, with pieces from Charles C. Mann, Belle Boggs and Sy Montgomery. “The Creature Beyond the Mountains,” by Brian Doyle, is a story about the giant sturgeon in the Pacific Northwest—one, named Herman, weighs […]
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“The Innocent Man, Part Two.” —Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly More from Colloff