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
There Goes the Neighborhood
LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in Esquire and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. OH, IF LAMAR had to make a guess, he’d say he drives up here about once a month, just to look down at the disappearing city. Pulls his Dodge to the side of the road and stands at the… Continue reading There Goes the Neighborhood
Not Necessarily the News
LONGFORM REPRINTS This article originally appeared in GQ and is reprinted on Longform by permission of the author. CHANCES ARE YOU’VE never heard of Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sure, it might be the largest independent owner of television stations in America, an empire of sixty channels spread across thirty-seven cities with a signal that reaches nearly a quarter of… Continue reading Not Necessarily the News
The Education
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
The Lost Marines of Tarawa
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
Island of Forbidden Delights
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
Cycle across Cuba
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
The Conscience of Joe Darby
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
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 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
Metamorphosis
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