Looking for your recommendations on the best longform articles to read.<p>Some examples I’ve enjoyed:<p>“Frank Sinatra Has A Cold” - Gay Talese, Esquire 1965
<https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/><p>“Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” - John Updike, The New Yorker 1960
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/10/22/hub-fans-bid-kid-adieu><p>“The Last Meal” - Michael Paterniti, Esquire 2008
<https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4642/the-last-meal-0598/>
Online journalism, but nevertheless:<p>"Raising the Dead" about cave diving - <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead" rel="nofollow">https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead</a> (ignore the sentence or two at the beginning about ghosts)<p>"The Paradox of the Proof" introduced me to Mochizukis "proof" of the ABC conjecture - <a href="http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/" rel="nofollow">http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/</a><p>"The Mastermind": Evan Ratliffs series of articles on criminal Paul Le Roux, basis for the book of the same name - <a href="https://magazine.atavist.com/category/Mastermind/" rel="nofollow">https://magazine.atavist.com/category/Mastermind/</a>
Pulling some from my list<p>[The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil](<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com...</a>)<p>How simmering chronic inflammations can be the cause of many acute condition [Raw and Red-Hot](<a href="https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-diet" rel="nofollow">https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-die...</a>)
"Orchid Fever" - Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 1995
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever</a><p>"Fantastic Beasts and How To Rank Them", Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 2017
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/is-bigfoot-likelier-than-the-loch-ness-monster" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/is-bigfoot-lik...</a>
"Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?" <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...</a>
<i>Consider the Lobster</i>, David Foster Wallace (2004)<p><a href="http://www.theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/11/Consider-the-Lobster_david-foster-wallace.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/f...</a>
Atchafalaya by John McPhee, New Yorker, Feb 1987: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya</a>
Not a specific article, but have you seen: <a href="https://longform.org" rel="nofollow">https://longform.org</a> and <a href="https://longreads.com" rel="nofollow">https://longreads.com</a>
This is a great site. Here are some
<a href="https://www.activistpost.com/tag/maryam-henein" rel="nofollow">https://www.activistpost.com/tag/maryam-henein</a>