Confessions of An Unredeemed Fan By Longreads Feature Leslie Jamison remembers Amy Winehouse, who passed away seven years ago today in Camden, London, at age 27. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
What Ever Happened To the Truth? By Bridey Heing Feature Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.
The Tyrant and His Enablers By Stephen Greenblatt Feature How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Justin Heckert, Hannah Louise Poston, Anne Helen Petersen, Jiayang Fan, and Rachel Greenwald Smith.
Arizona’s Aquifers Are a Laboratory of Our Dry Future By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After large corporate farmers started growing nuts in one southeastern Arizona, local residents’ wells started going dry. The situation is only getting worse.
Smooth Spaces, Fuzzy Lives By Rachel Andrews Feature The border of Northern Ireland was one Rachel Andrews thought she could never cross. Then it began to dissolve.
Big Pharma Has No Comment, But Would Still Like All Your Tax Dollars By Michelle Weber Highlight From 2008 to 2016, the amount that state Medicaid programs spend on prescription drugs almost doubled. Why?
Understanding Adrian Piper’s Probing Body of Work By Danielle Jackson Highlight Adrian Piper’s body of work encourages audiences to think critically about race, gender, and power, and to engage with their own perceptions.
I Paid $710 to Sneak Into This Club By Michelle Weber Highlight We wear slogan tees to signal our politics and identify ourselves to like-minded thinkers — but maybe they mask more than they reveal.
What should we do this weekend, go to the movies or sail a handmade raft to Polynesia? By Michelle Weber Highlight Don McIntyre is not a man who shies away from a challenge — an understatement if there ever was one.
We Have Always Lived in the House By Victoria Comella Feature In the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
Behind The Writing: On Interviewing By Sarah Menkedick Feature In her first column on craft, Sarah Menkedick speaks with Sarah Smarsh, Lauren Markham, and Jennifer Percy on the art of the interview.
That’s All, Folks! The End of the Blockbuster Era in Alaska By Krista Stevens Highlight At the end of July, no one in Alaska will be able to “Make it a Blockbuster Night!”
Should We Really Confide in Siri? By Krista Stevens Highlight People share their feelings with Siri all the time. What’s scary is that Siri is really listening.
Peterson’s Complaint By Laurie Penny Feature There’s no use debating a feeling. It’s time to change how we engage with Jordan Peterson.
The Tyrant and His Enablers By Stephen Greenblatt Feature How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.
Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate By Jabeen Akhtar Feature As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.
Eating Alone By Longreads Feature We’re eating alone more often than in any previous generation. But why should a meal on our own be uninspired? Why shouldn’t the French saying “life is too short to drink bad wine” still apply?
Pay the Homeless By Bryce Covert Feature It’s time to end the pernicious myth that giving money directly to panhandlers won’t help them.
How to Be Single By Shelly Oria Feature Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.
What Ever Happened To the Truth? By Bridey Heing Feature Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.
Dead Girls: An Interview with Alice Bolin By Hope Reese Feature It’s clear we love the Dead Girl, enough to rehash and reproduce her story, to kill her again and again. But not enough to see a pattern.
The Tyrant and His Enablers By Stephen Greenblatt Feature How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.
The Blue Ridge Country King By johnlingan Feature No one would have thought that Highland Ridge, Virginia was the center of anything. Then Jim McCoy’s honky-tonk came along.
‘Wild With Love’: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah on the Portraits of Henry Taylor By Danielle Jackson Highlight Henry Taylor’s portraits are sacred objects that lovingly center black subjects and black interiority.
Arizona’s Aquifers Are a Laboratory of Our Dry Future By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After large corporate farmers started growing nuts in one southeastern Arizona, local residents’ wells started going dry. The situation is only getting worse.
Why Is Australia Deporting So Many Maori and Pacific Islanders? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why are 60% of the New Zealanders deported from Australia Maori or Pacific Islanders?
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862 By Danielle Jackson Highlight Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.
The Far Right’s Fight Against Race-Conscious School Admissions By Danielle Jackson Commentary Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department rescinded Obama-era policy documents that provided guidelines on affirmative action.
Welcome to the Jungle By Michelle Weber Highlight As Caitlin Moran explains, there are Bad Men, and then there are Badly Educated Men.
What Ever Happened To the Truth? By Bridey Heing Feature Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.
I Paid $710 to Sneak Into This Club By Michelle Weber Highlight We wear slogan tees to signal our politics and identify ourselves to like-minded thinkers — but maybe they mask more than they reveal.
We Have Always Lived in the House By Victoria Comella Feature In the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
Muscle Memory: A Case History By Mariam I. Williams Feature While healing from a back injury, Mariam I. Williams learns to let go of the ways she has been taught to mistrust her body.
Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate By Jabeen Akhtar Feature As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.
