What I Want to Know of Kindness By Devin Feature On masculinity, grief, and learning from suffering. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People By Rachel Nuwer Feature A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?
Self Portrait With iPhone By Pam Mandel Feature Newly single in her mid-50s, Pam Mandel swipes through dozens of selfies, including her own.
What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple? By Soraya Roberts Feature It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I? On the isolation of disconnection.
The Lonely World of Family Life By Carolyn Wells Highlight “The boundaries between the worlds of families and everyone else in society seem to be getting more and more entrenched, and transgressing them is frowned upon.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Franklin Foer, Andy Greenberg, Jerry Saltz, Sara Selevitch, and Kyle Buchanan.
The ‘Accidental Hero’ Who Saved the Internet from WannaCry By Krista Stevens Highlight “That’s when her son came upstairs and told her, a little uncertainly, that he seemed to have stopped the worst malware attack the world had ever seen.”
Five Longreads Stories Selected for 2020 Editions of the ‘Best American’ Series By Sari Botton Highlight Congratulations to Matthew Salesses, Tim Requarth, Mojgan Ghazirad, Shanna B. Tiayon, Joe Fassler, and The Counter, our partner in co-publishing Fassler’s piece.
Sharing Food to Feed A Family’s Soul By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Food feeds the body, but cooking for other people feeds human connections.
From Russia, With Malice By Krista Stevens Highlight “But there is another reason for the government’s alarmingly inadequate response: a president who sees attempts to counter the Russia threat as a personal affront.”
This Week in Books: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! By Dana Snitzky Reading List “Oh, all the one-way tickets! / I haven’t found anything / more sorrowful than you / in the pockets of the world.”
Phone Call in The Age of Coronavirus By Max Feature Marcia Aldrich on why cell phones, so thin and light and little, don’t seem fitting for momentous calls, for life and death communications, or for last words.
What Do We Do Without Live Music? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Those of us who live for musical performances must find other ways to temporarily live without them.
RIP Little Richard, the ‘Self-Proclaimed King and Queen of Rock & Roll’ By Krista Stevens Highlight There are miracles everywhere if you know where to look. And know how to listen: A wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!
The Bigamist’s Daughter By Robin Antalek Feature Robin Antalek considers the legacy of the man who abandoned her for another family and never looked back.
What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple? By Soraya Roberts Feature It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I? On the isolation of disconnection.
25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them By Catherine Cusick Reading List A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.
Grieving, but Calmed by a Different Kind of Storm By Stephanie Land Feature In isolation, Stephanie Land finds surprising relief from PTSD — and discovers she is able to write again.
My Body Is Not a Temple By Soraya Roberts Feature All the good habits and self-optimization in the world don’t give you real control over your body. Back away from the bread starter.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Shawn Yuan, Marty Munson, Anna Merlan, Lauren Collins, and Drew Magary.
This Week in Books: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! By Dana Snitzky Reading List “Oh, all the one-way tickets! / I haven’t found anything / more sorrowful than you / in the pockets of the world.”
This Week in Books: Several Nihilistic Frenchmen By Dana Snitzky Commentary This week critics have looked to Huysmans, Camus and Jean-Philippe Toussaint for COVID-era inspiration.
This Week In Books: I Bought Some Books By Dana Snitzky Reading List Am I ghoul for buying all these plague books?
This Week In Books: The New Lord and Lady of the Apartment By Dana Snitzky Commentary “Infamously … Goethe dismissed the younger writer as diseased.”
This Week in Books: A B-Movie Storytelling Moment By Dana Snitzky Commentary Give me a Bolaño novel that starts with a guy walking into a bar, and then another guy starts telling him a story, and the rest of that novel is just the second guy telling that story.
What Do We Do Without Live Music? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Those of us who live for musical performances must find other ways to temporarily live without them.
How Covid-19 Could Reshape Urban Life By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Cities were vibrant, culturally rich places to live before the pandemic. We can only speculate about how cities will be after.
How China Censored Citizens and the Press on COVID-19 By Krista Stevens Highlight China maintains its swift, open response to coronavirus bought time for the world. Journalists, had their stories not been deleted, will tell you otherwise.
‘Hand to hand to hand’: How Coronavirus Spread Aboard the Diamond Princess By Krista Stevens Highlight “…the ship…provided the world’s best data set on the virus, confirming crucial facts about how the disease spread, especially through asymptomatic carriers.”
My Body Is Not a Temple By Soraya Roberts Feature All the good habits and self-optimization in the world don’t give you real control over your body. Back away from the bread starter.
Self Portrait With iPhone By Pam Mandel Feature Newly single in her mid-50s, Pam Mandel swipes through dozens of selfies, including her own.
Phone Call in The Age of Coronavirus By Max Feature Marcia Aldrich on why cell phones, so thin and light and little, don’t seem fitting for momentous calls, for life and death communications, or for last words.
American Tests By Jakki Kerubo Feature In her quest to become truly American, Jakki Kerubo discovers what it means to belong in a place.
And Then We Grew Up By Sarah Menkedick Feature On letting go of potential and other myths of greatness.
