Incredible Longform Articles
I love sitting down with a cup of tea and reading an incredible longform article. Here’s a list of my favourite longform articles, primarily focussed on technology and true crime.
Airplanes
- What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 (Popular Mechanics, 2020)
Cybersecurity
- 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 Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (Wired, 2020)
- Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker (Wired, 2017)
- How To Make Anything Signify Anything (Cabinet, 2010)
Extreme Activities
- Raising the Dead (Outside Online, 2005)
History
- A National Evil - the curse of the goitre in Switzerland (LRB, 2023)
- The Fatal Hike that became a Nazi Propaganda Coup (The Guardian, 2016)
- Scott And Scurvy (Idle Words, 2014)
Society
- The Rise and Fall of a Double Agent (The Walrus, 2021)
- Worst Chimpanzee Attack Story Ever (Esquire, 2009)
- I Went to 50 Different Dentists and Almost All of Them Gave Me a Different Diagnosis (Reader’s Digest, 1997)
- Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (The Atlantic, 1982)
- A Writer’s Desperate Plea Paints a Horrifying Picture of What Really Happens in a Car Crash (Reader’s Digest, 1935)
True Crime
- Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It (The Cut, 2018)
- The Mastermind (The Atavist, 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)
- The Professor and the Love Slave (D Magazine, 1993)
Cryptocurrency