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The Ladies Who Were Famous for Wanting to Be Left Alone
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The Ladies of Llangollen fell in love, ran away together, and lived a scholarly life of “delicious seclusion” — secluded, that is, except for all the visitors.

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Here is My Heart
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Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.

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Maybe We Can Make a Circle
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Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.

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Maybe We’re the Circle
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Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.

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Latest Picks

The Delay
Rachel Monroe  / Esquire
The Great Chinese Dinosaur Boom
Richard Conniff  / Smithsonian
How the NRA Sells Guns in America Today
Elliott Woods  / The New Republic
They Don’t Do Sadness
Isaac Butler  / Topic
The Changeling
Alexander Chee  / Longreads
NHS SOS
James Meek  / London Review of Books
Pregnant, Uninsured, and Adrift
Molly Osberg  / Splinter
For the Child of Immigrants, the American Dream Can Be a Nightmare
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio  / Vogue
Style is an Algorithm
Kyle Chayka  / Racked
K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings
Penelope Green  / The New York Times
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Latest Posts

One Coastal Scottish Village Learns the Real Meaning of Community Highlight

The Scottish village of Portpatrick saved its harbor and identity through a once-obscure ownership model, community shares.

How the NRA Uses Fear to Sell Guns in America Highlight

Despite its fear-mongering tactics to sell guns, the future of the NRA — and gun manufacturers in general — is in question.

What If the Price of the American Dream Is Too High? Highlight

In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.

Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa. Highlight

What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.

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Bang and Vanish Feature

A trip to Key West becomes an unexpected journey involving a sacred bird, a beloved dog, and the challenge of coming to terms with the nature of fate.

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K.D. Lang Will Indulge Your Craving for “Constant Craving” Commentary

K.D. Lang’s seminal album Ingénue is 25 years old. Penelope Green talks to K.D. Lang about how she’s evolved as an artist in the last quarter century.

I Have a Half Mind to Donate My Brain to Science Highlight

Dara Bramson’s grandmother decided to donate her brain to science, so Bramson visited the donation center to learn how iot all works.

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The Changeling Feature

Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners Reading List

This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.

The Amateur Sleuth Who Can’t Let One Case Rest Highlight

One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.

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The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV Feature

An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.

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Who Does She Think She Is? Feature

The internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.

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The Death Row Book Club Feature

When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.

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You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent Feature

A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.

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Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine Feature

Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.

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The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care Feature

Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.

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A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture Feature

Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.

Books

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Here is My Heart Feature

Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.

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The Ladies Who Were Famous for Wanting to Be Left Alone Feature

The Ladies of Llangollen fell in love, ran away together, and lived a scholarly life of “delicious seclusion” — secluded, that is, except for all the visitors.

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Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove Feature

“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”

Get With the Modern Age, Sign Up for the Longreads Books Newsletter Commentary

Sign up for the Longreads Books Newsletter, and you too could be never not reading a book.

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As Innocuous as Plant No. 1 Feature

William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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Current Events

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Maybe We’re the Circle Feature

Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.

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Maybe We Can Make a Circle Feature

Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.

Feature
Here is My Heart Feature

Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.

What If the Price of the American Dream Is Too High? Highlight

In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners Reading List

This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.

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Essays & Criticism

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Maybe We Can Make a Circle Feature

Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.

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Here is My Heart Feature

Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.

What If the Price of the American Dream Is Too High? Highlight

In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.

Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa. Highlight

What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.

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Bang and Vanish Feature

A trip to Key West becomes an unexpected journey involving a sacred bird, a beloved dog, and the challenge of coming to terms with the nature of fate.

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