Articles of Interest

A collection of long-form articles which are worth a read.

• A Long Walk’s End by William Browning [sbnation.com]
• The Last Man Up by Christopher Solomon [runnersworld.com]
• The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste by Daniel Engber [slate.com]
• Messages in the Deep [builtvisible.com]
• The End of the Suburbs by Leigh Gallagher [time.com]
• The Falling Man by Tom Junod [esquire.com]
• Biography of Usain Bolt, Mutant by Luke Dittrich [esquire.com]
• The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take) by Tom Lamont [theguardian.com]
• Roger Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace [nytimes.com]
• How to Get Paid to Drop Out of Races by Sarah Barker [deadspin.com]
• The End of Neighbours by Brian Bethune [macleans.ca]
• Apollo: The Greatest Leap by Eric Berger [arstechnica.com]
• How Secret Societies Stay Hidden On The Internet by Matt King [theatlantic.com]
• Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson [wired.com]
• The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans by Tom Mahood [otherhand.org]
• Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi by Maurits Martijn [medium.com]
• Up and Then Down by Nick Paumgarten [newyorker.com]
• Shadow Boxing by Wright Thompson [espn.co.uk]
• Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert by Maria Bustillos [theawl.com]
• Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? by Edward Jay Epstein [theatlantic.com]
• Secrets of the Little Blue Box by Ron Rosenbaum [lospadres.info]
• The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack by Chris Knittel [vice.com]
• The Encyclopedia of the Missing by Jeremy Lybarger [longreads.com]
• Hiroshima by John Hersey [newyorker.com]
• High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace by Joshua Davis [wired.com]
• The Case of the Vanishing Blonde by Mark Bowden [vanityfair.com]
• Why would someone steal the world’s rarest water lily? by Sam Knight [theguardian.com]