Let these #longreads keep you company while the blizzard hits.
Empire of Ice — GQ
Jeanne-Marie Laskas reports from a $500 million man-made island off the coast of Alaska, where oil workers toil in round-the-clock darkness and temperatures around 45 below. Read it at GQ .
Lucas Jackson / Reuters / Reuters
Remote Control — The Believer
Twenty years later, Sarah Marshall reconsiders one of ice skating's most infamous scandals: the tale of Tonya Harding and the attack against Nancy Kerrigan. Read it at The Believer .
Pascal Rondeau / Getty
Why I Bought House in Detroit for $500 — BuzzFeed News
Drew Philp recounts his first years — and first, heat-less winters — living in an economically depressed Detroit neighborhood. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photograph by Garrett MacLean
Snow Fall — New York Times Magazine
John Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning deep dive into an avalanche that killed several prominent skiers in Washington State. Read it at the New York Times.
Washington State Department of Transportation / Via nytimes.com

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