Incredible Longform Articles
Here’s a list of fantastic longform articles, primarily focussed on technology and true crime. They immerse you in the lives of others and show the spectacular range of human experience.
- The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (The Guardian, 2021)
- Juniper Mystery Attacks Traced to Pentagon Role and Chinese Hackers (Bloomberg, 2021)
- The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told (Wired, 2021)
- The Rise and Fall of a Double Agent (The Walrus, 2021)
- The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (Wired, 2020)
- What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 (Popular Mechanics, 2020)
- The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder (Wired, 2019) + follow-up conspiracy theory
- Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It (The Cut, 2018)
- Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker (Wired, 2017)
- The Mastermind (The Atavist, 2016)
- The Fatal Hike that became a Nazi Propaganda Coup (The Guardian, 2016)
- How a Ragtag Gang of Retirees Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in British History (Vanity Fair, 2016), see also The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist
- A Criminal Mind (California Sunday, 2015)
- The Body in Room 348 (Vanity Fair, 2013)
- The Hunt For The Death Valley Germans (Other Hand, 2012)
- The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist (Wired, 2010)
- How To Make Anything Signify Anything (Cabinet, 2010)
- Worst Chimpanzee Attack Story Ever (Esquire, 2009)
- Raising the Dead (Outside Online, 2005)
- The Professor and the Love Slave (D Magazine, 1993)
- Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (The Atlantic, 1982)