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Above It All: How the Court Got So Supreme
Secrecy and speechifying, collegiality and hierarchy, exceptionalism and opulence on the Supreme Court.
Posted inArts & Culture
Longreads Best of 2017: Food Writing
Our top reads this year in food writing.
Posted inReading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week as chosen by the Longreads editorial team.
Posted inEditor's Pick
“I Thought I Could Swing It”
On the strange life and presidency of Calvin Coolidge: The Coolidge family never wasted words. John Coolidge simply notified his son that President Harding had died in San Francisco a few hours earlier. Calvin Coolidge calmly got dressed and walked across the street to a general store where he contacted Secretary of State Charles Evans […]
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When Jeffrey Eugenides moved to New York, he was 28 years old and things were not looking good. After graduating from Brown in 1983, he and Rick Moody, a college friend, had driven out to San Francisco with no real plan other than making a go of it as writers, and lived together awhile on […]
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The Awl's Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk: Our Top Longreads of 2011
(Left to right: Choire, Carrie, Alex) Because there are three of us, we trilaterally decided to go for 15. But it’s not really five each; that becomes complicated, too, but… well, anyway, no matter how you cut it, surely at least one of us hated some of these stories. Also to be fair, this list, […]
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: The New York Times, Popular Mechanics, The Morning News, GQ, London Review of Books, plus a guest pick from writer Evan Hughes.
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Stanford White and Harry Thaw’s battle for the heart of model and chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit in 1906: One warm June night in 1906, Albert Payson Terhune could be found engaged in battle for a telephone booth in the old Madison Square Garden while wearing a tuxedo. He had forcibly removed a man mid-conversation, and […]
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His best-known novel, Et Tu, Babe, was published 20 years ago, but now the writer has returned (with a new book, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack) to a world that matches the absurdity of his pre-Internet work: On Charlie Rose [in 1996], Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace and Mark Leyner sat together in the familiar round […]
