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