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LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in GQ and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. EVERYBODY THINKS there was a conspiracy at Abu Ghraib. Everybody thinks there was an order from high up, or that somebody in command must have known. Everybody is wrong. Nobody in command knew about the abuse, because nobody in command… Continue reading The Conscience of Joe Darby

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Esquire and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. LOST: My buddy Lou and I, two skinny yanquis in the middle of Cuba, drenched with sweat, doubled over our bicycles, gasping for breath, exhausted. It’s late and dark and hot and sticky. We’ve come sixty miles… Continue reading Cycle across Cuba

LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Outside and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. I FINISH the last of the saltines that accompanied the coconut that has masqueraded as my hotel breakfast. “It’s good today,” my waiter told me cheerfully. “We have coffee.” I drain my cup. The early-morning air is… Continue reading Island of Forbidden Delights

LONGFORM REPRINTS This excerpt originally appeared in Ramparts and is reprinted here by permission of the author’s estate. For the last several years, Studs Terkel has been going around the country—his own Chicago, Brooklyn, mid-Western farms, the coal mining areas of Appalachia—recording what people have to say about their work. From about one hundred of these… Continue reading Women at Work