Longreads

In "What Do You Desire?" Emily Witt travels to San Francisco, attends a shoot for a pornographic video about "women bound, stripped, and punished in public," reflects on her own unsuccessful search…

At their best, journalists expose the crimes of the powerful and there were plenty of powerful people worthy of examination in the Britain of the early 2000s. London was awash with money as it…

"It was eight years before I was able to say the word that describes what happened to me," says Maricella Guzman. "I hadn't even been in the Navy a month. I was so young. I tried to report it. But…

The reformer mind was accustomed to dealing in abstractions, not specifics.--Christine Stansell,The Feminist PromiseWhat follows is a really long post. Read at your own peril.In those…

The setting is certainly nice: a five-star golf resort high in the Tortolita mountains outside Tucson, Arizona. Despite being in the middle of the desert, water is all around: two golf courses, three pools, a water park, plus three outdoor lawns raked by sprinklers. Inside, conventioneers are unloading displays of surgical instruments, orthopaedic furniture and clear plastic canisters designed to store human fat.

They arrived before dawn to wait for the food truck. Middle-aged men, young women with children, the elderly and the retired, mixing with the low-paid on their way to work. As the sun rose high…

In September 2004, then-U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, became the first member of any U.S. administration to apply the label "genocide" to an ongoing conflict. Interviews I…

In 2005, the skeletal remains of a boy were found in the chimney of an abandoned building in South Los Angeles. The discovery of those bones began to unravel a mystery surrounding a…

A hundred years ago, on 21 August 1911, an Italian painter and decorator slipped from the cupboard in the Louvre where he had been hiding all night, stepped up to the Mona Lisa, freed her from…