Month: August 2014

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. CHRISTINA BROWN pulled into the refugee camp after an eight-hour drive across the desert. It was late July of last year, and Brown was a 30-year-old immigration lawyer. She had spent a few years after… Continue reading American Nightmare

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Esquire and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. THE SYMPTOMS crashed down like an avalanche, and John Moore didn’t know what to think. Bruises all over his body, bleeding gums, and the roll of flesh around his waist that he’d always figured for fat had gotten lumpy… Continue reading Who Owns This Body?

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. LATE ONE AFTERNOON in the summer of 2004, an aviation enthusiast named Bill Darron drove down the alley behind Laura Hillenbrand’s house in Washington. He parked his car at the rear entrance and popped open… Continue reading Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in GQ and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. IF YOU WERE walking down the street in Toronto and you happened to bump into Phil McDowell, here is what you would notice: nothing. You probably wouldn’t even see McDowell, because that’s the kind of guy he is. At… Continue reading A Just Desert

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in GQ and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. ON THE MORNING of March 28, 1979, just after 4 a.m., a pair of workers on the graveyard shift at Three Mile Island nuclear plant noticed something odd: The filters for the system’s cooling water had spontaneously shut down. This… Continue reading Meltdown

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in GQ and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. SHE HAD TO LIE. She stood in the window of the little white house and looked outside at her boys on the lawn.  It was warm for September, and they seemed happy, throwing a baseball in the afternoon light under… Continue reading The Unspeakable Choice

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in GQ and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. A FEW DAYS AFTER Rahm Emanuel resigned as White House chief of staff in October, I stopped by the Justice Department to see Eric Holder. I had been meeting with the attorney general periodically for about a year (since he… Continue reading Did Hope Change?

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Esquire and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. LONG ABOUT FIVE in the evening, Ron heads down to the pool for a soak. That’s instead of a shower. Way he figures, it just makes sense. Shoot, if he was to take a shower, he’d soil the washtub,… Continue reading Hot Enough for Ya?

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Esquire and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. IN THE EARLY LIGHT, he stood on the mountain with the buoyant and spirited Northern Alliance soldiers behind him in their mud huts, bickering and laughing around their fires and their pots of boiling water, but he scarcely heard their… Continue reading Warfighter

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Esquire and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. SOMETIMES BENNY hides things from himself. He doesn’t know why. Just to do it, that’s why. Just to keep himself sharp. Like he’ll slip a cigarette on top of the door frame or in the back of a dresser… Continue reading Benny of the Bull