Long reads
Do you ever copy and paste an online essay into a word document, delete the photos, resize the text, print out a hard copy, find a pub in a strange city, order a pint of beer and a Jack Daniel’s, put in some earbuds to dampen the noise, and relax? I do. Here are a collection of slightly longer newspaper articles that I’ve found absorbing and well worth reading:
️️Events
- Another night to remember, by Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair, May 2012
True crime
- Darkness in August, Vanity Fair, by Buzz Bissinger, February 2014
- The Gambler who beat roulette, by Kit Chellel, Business Week, April 6th 2023
- The Case of the Vanishing Blonde, by Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair, November 8th 2010
Music
- Pearls Before Breakfast, by Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, August 8th 2007
- The Pet Shop Boys and the exhaustion of pop, by Michael Collins, Spiked, May 27th 2023
For more of this genre, see Best of 2023: Personal Essays.