Some favourite articles

Below are a few of my favourite non-fiction articles. Many classics, and a few recent ones. All of them long.

David Foster Wallace

• ‘Consider the lobster‘, Gourmet Magazine (2004)
• ‘Shipping Out — On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise‘, (Harpers Magazine, 2006)
• ‘Roger Federer as Religious Experience‘, New York Times (2006)
• ‘Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address‘, (May 21, 2005)

Vanity Fair

• Betting on the Blind Side, 2010
• Twitter Was Act One, 2011

Esquire

• The falling man, 2009

The New Yorker (profiles)

• John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods, 2010
• Karl Lagerfeld, 2007
• Julian Assange, 2010

The New Yorker (reporting)

• Up and Then Down — The lives of elevators, 2008

WIRED Magazine

• Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief, 2010
• Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up, 2009

Atlantic Magazine

• Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?, 1982

Rolling Stone

• The Runaway General, 2010