I am a very interested person and as such spend a considerable amount of my total reading time reading lengthy articles on almost anything. I figured I’d start a thread where (if there are any) likeminded posters could share their favorites, and begin a collection of sorts. I’ll start off with a few recent favorites and if the thread picks up I’ll keep posting more. If a thread like this has already existed and died, I apologize in advance!

Fascinating article on the mind of the Octopus:

https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/

Terrifying one on the inevitable Pacific Northwest earthquake:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...really-big-one

Speculation on the downfall of the dinosaurs:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...debate/565769/

Sad but peerless up-close look at the craziness that has become Mr. Depp’s normal:

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/...y-depp-666010/

Oral history of my favorite movie:

https://www.maxim.com/.amp/entertain...15-years-later

A close look at meditation today:

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/...ght-timer-apps

Someone in another thread turned me on to this older article about
the recently deceased Ricky Jay.
Long and took me a couple days to read because I had to look up
a word every few sentences, at least my lexicon has been expanded.


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1...us?reload=true

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out

lol that was great

Article about a guy who lived as a hermit in Maine.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

wait but why spacex stuff.

About people who jump from the Golden Gate Bridge:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers

An article about Anthony Bourdain


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq....ar-tribute/amp

How to Homer: One SI writer's quest to go deep in an MLB ballpark

I haven't read too many longform articles, but this one immediately came to mind.

Timely and terrific

Amazon’s Big Business -

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/...-reinstatement

Talk about people who deserve coal this Christmas.
That article was making my head spin, I think this one
quote sums up the nature of these scams to me

"These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds.”

On being a cable guy (girl)

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5...84c9fd4c21/amp

On how geolocation works (and fails):

https://gizmodo.com/how-cartographer...y-c-1830758394

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...gest-art-heist
French burglar with a taste for art

In the recent issue of The NY Review of Books there was an essay on John Quincy Adams whose diaries are prescient viz the current executive. Password problems preclude me from posting.

A stateless man living in a Charles de Gaulle airport lounge for 15 years;

https://www.gq.com/story/merhan-nass...e-gaulle-stuck

wow. I guess it makes perfect sense that he would just kind of lose it. I had a friend who gradually lost his touch with reality after his whole family died. Super sad stuff imo

Super interesting

https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/bruce...ha-haider.html

John Updike On Herman Melville’s withdrawal from fiction
Great writer writing about a great writer

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1...les-withdrawal

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

Great multipart blogpost about a sad story - Tom Mahood (the author) tells a great story, and lots of other interesting stuff on the blog.

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/s...alley-germans/

MM MD

Confirmed good read

Short order cooks in Vegas:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...05/the-egg-men