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)
• I Went to 50 Different Dentists and Almost All of Them Gave Me a Different Diagnosis (Reader’s Digest, 1997)
• The Professor and the Love Slave (D Magazine, 1993)
• 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)