Playing Doc's Games
Surfing San Francisco with a true believer.
New Yorker
Out of Bethlehem
The life and politics of Joan Didion.
Who Killed Rubén Espinosa and Nadia Vera?
“Whenever news of yet another horrifying murder or massacre somewhere in the country breaks, my friends and I often find ourselves asking if Mexico has 'hit bottom' yet... But some crimes move or frighten us in ways we hadn’t anticipated, and the Colonia Narvarte massacre is one of those.”
Underworld
“Super tunnels” are a speciality of the Sinaloa drug cartel – and its leader, El Chapo.
Trump Solo
“Deep down, he wants to be Madonna.”
Learning to Speak Lingerie
A Chinese underwear merchant rises in Egypt.
The Children of Strangers
The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.
Joe Gould's Teeth
Falling into the black hole of literary journalism’s most famous eccentic
Death of a Prosecutor
Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?
The Hunt for El Chapo
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.
Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.
Her Own Best Disputant
An early profile of Diane Keaton.
Revenge Killing
The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.
Five Hostages
Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.
Solar Power for Everyone
The people working to make energy efficient homes cheap.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Republic of Bad Taste"
Secrets, dangers, and murder in a German police state.
"Andreas didn’t know what to say. What he wanted was for her to come and live in the basement of the rectory with him. He could protect her, home-school her, practice English with her, train her as a counsellor for at-risk youth, and be her friend, the way King Lear imagined being friends with Cordelia, following the news of the court from a distance, laughing at who was in, who was out. Maybe in time they’d be a couple, the couple in the basement, leading their own private life."
The Death Treatment
The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?
Instagram’s Most Famous Mules
On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.
Go Ask Alice
On the mysteries of the man behind Alice in Wonderland.
Fly Trans-Love Airways
Rebellious teens on the Sunset Strip.
Reprinted by Longform and available online in full for the first time, this article also appears in Adler's new collection, After the Tall Timber.
Off Diamond Head
Growing up among the tall waves and schoolyard bullies of Hawaii.
House of Secrets
On Witanhurst, the dilapidated London mansion whose ownership is cloaked in mystery.
Inexplicable Crime
On the psychology of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
To Have and to Hold
Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.
Who Funds the Future?
Inside the mind of Marc Andreessen.
The Man Who Broke the Music Business
A CD plant employee ushered in the modern era of music piracy by teaming up with a shadowy “Scene” crew on IRC chat.
