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LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in The New Yorker and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. LATE ONE NIGHT in September of 2013, Rick Schiller awoke in bed with his right leg throbbing. Schiller, who is in his fifties, lives in San Jose, California. He had been feeling ill all week, and, as… Continue reading A Bug in the System

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 The New York Times Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. LATE ON THE MORNING of April 3, the expedition ship Alucia rocked violently on the South Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a squall. On the aft deck, the crew huddled together in rain slickers… Continue reading The Deepest End

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. WE WERE SOMEWHERE around Barolo on the edge of the Italian wine country when my wife’s 68-year-old uncle, Dario, lurched forward in the driver’s seat, fished a small leather pouch from the floorboard and threw… Continue reading The Land of Smoke and Fog

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in GQ and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. A FEW WEEKS AGO, I went to see Colin Powell in his office. The room was tiny and the light dim. An Asian lamp on his desk cast a faint glow onto the walls, and the shades of his… Continue reading Casualty of War

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Esquire and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. “WOW, HE REALLY just left us here. Do you think he left us? I don’t think he would do that. Can you make a fire with two sticks and a rock?” Charlize Theron is anxious. Not greatly anxious, not distraught,… Continue reading The Education

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. WE HAD BEEN on the island for about an hour when we found the first skeleton. It was a pile of yellow bones tucked inside a cardboard box. Mark Noah squatted down for a look. He… Continue reading The Lost Marines of Tarawa

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in New York Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. BACKSTAGE AT FARM AID is a hidden city. You enter through a guarded gate just north of the concert pavilion, leaving behind the woozy crowd and vendors hawking organic snacks, then you drift through a… Continue reading Big Pothead vs. Big Pot

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. A LITTLE BEFORE SEVEN the other night, the prosecutor Marilyn Mosby stopped by my house in Baltimore for dinner. She was coming straight from work in one of her customary gray pantsuits, and… Continue reading Baltimore vs. Baltimore

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, I went to see the painter Chuck Close at his beach house on Long Island. The drive there always reminds me of an escape to the Hamptons in… Continue reading Metamorphosis