HACKER Q&A
📣 mke

Best Longform Articles?


Looking for your recommendations on the best longform articles to read.

Some examples I’ve enjoyed:

“Frank Sinatra Has A Cold” - Gay Talese, Esquire 1965

“Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” - John Updike, The New Yorker 1960

“The Last Meal” - Michael Paterniti, Esquire 2008


  👤 kratom_sandwich Accepted Answer ✓
Online journalism, but nevertheless:

"Raising the Dead" about cave diving - https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead (ignore the sentence or two at the beginning about ghosts)

"The Paradox of the Proof" introduced me to Mochizukis "proof" of the ABC conjecture - http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/

"The Mastermind": Evan Ratliffs series of articles on criminal Paul Le Roux, basis for the book of the same name - https://magazine.atavist.com/category/Mastermind/


👤 raihansaputra
Pulling some from my list

[The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil](https://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com...)

How simmering chronic inflammations can be the cause of many acute condition [Raw and Red-Hot](https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-die...)


👤 he11ow
"Orchid Fever" - Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 1995 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever

"Fantastic Beasts and How To Rank Them", Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 2017 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/is-bigfoot-lik...


👤 dcminter
"Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...

👤 keiferski
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace (2004)

http://www.theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/f...


👤 kesava
Atchafalaya by John McPhee, New Yorker, Feb 1987: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya

👤 newleaf
Not a specific article, but have you seen: https://longform.org and https://longreads.com


👤 maryamhen
This is a great site. Here are some https://www.activistpost.com/tag/maryam-henein