Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream? By Matt Giles Feature Dan Stoddard believes there is room in the NBA for a 42-year-old rookie. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
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Our Words Will Save Us and Set Us Free By Jackson Bliss Feature In the wake of having his writing career belittled, Jackson Bliss becomes an interpreter for a refugee and comes to see words, translations, and storytelling as important acts of resistance.
An American City, Inhabited Yet Abandoned By Michelle Weber Highlight “Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret Children By Krista Stevens Highlight Donald Cline justified his deception with choice bible verses, so that makes everything okay.
The Power of a Neighborhood’s Name By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When Google Maps’ data renamed an African American neighborhood, it opened up residents to the looming forces of gentrification.
A Rare Toy Heist, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In 2017, the theft of a rare toy — a Boba “Rocket” Fett prototype that was never released for sale — rocked the Star Wars collecting community.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Chloe Cooper Jones, Adam Serwer, Emma Marris, and Mik Awake.
Alternative Reality: ‘Three Wrongfully Convicted Men, 40 Years, and a City That Still Refuses to be Honest With Itself’ By Matthew Kassel Reading List Matthew Kassel brings us eight excellent reads from alt-weeklies across the United States.
How the Shock Jock Became the Outrage Jock By Soraya Roberts Feature What’s the difference between Howard Stern and Tucker Carlson? There isn’t really one.
Revisiting My Grandfather’s Garden By Mojgan Ghazirad Feature During a return trip to Tehran, Mojgan Ghazirad searches for her childhood home and witnesses the damage U.S. sanctions have brought to Iranian lives.
How the Pacheco Family Pivoted From Baking Bread to Burying the Bodies By Krista Stevens Highlight “For now, though, he has no plans to become a baker again.”
Women and Pain: A Reading List By Jacqueline Alnes Reading List “…how do we begin to change the narrative of how women’s pain is perceived, understood, and treated?”
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground By Longreads Feature Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.
‘The Most Versatile Criminal In History’ By Jonny Auping Feature Journalist Evan Ratliff has uncovered the shocking reach of Paul Le Roux’s criminal enterprise — a global network of pawns, most of whom were unaware of the full extent of the empire.
Class Dismissed By Alison Stine Feature When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
The Problem With Nostalgia By Michael Musto Feature Michael Musto argues that wearing rose-colored glasses always leads to an unfair distortion — looking back on the best of the past while comparing it to the worst of the present.
After the Tsunami By Matthew Komatsu Feature After the 2011 disaster, which killed his grandmother and laid waste to his ancestral home, an American journeys to Japan to search for what the tsunami left in its wake.
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2018 By Longreads Reading List Must-read stories from Han Kang, Porochista Khakpour, and Min Jin Lee.
How the Guardian Went Digital By Longreads Feature Remaking itself from a little leftie newspaper to a powerhouse of internet journalism required experimentation, transparency, and embracing uncertainty.
America’s Post-Frontier Hangover By Will Meyer Feature America binged on expansion, relying on land grabs as an engine of growth and a way to externalize racial hatred. Historian Greg Grandin asks, without a frontier, what can America be?
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground By Longreads Feature Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.
This Month In Books: The Anxiety of No Influence By Dana Snitzky Commentary This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about pasts and futures, and how lineages stretch across time.
An American City, Inhabited Yet Abandoned By Michelle Weber Highlight “Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”
The Power of a Neighborhood’s Name By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When Google Maps’ data renamed an African American neighborhood, it opened up residents to the looming forces of gentrification.
How the Shock Jock Became the Outrage Jock By Soraya Roberts Feature What’s the difference between Howard Stern and Tucker Carlson? There isn’t really one.
“White” Isn’t Even Neutral When You’re Talking About Paint Colors By Michelle Weber Highlight Your systems will not protect you.
Faith and Reproductive Justice Are Not in Opposition By Danielle Jackson Feature Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Our Words Will Save Us and Set Us Free By Jackson Bliss Feature In the wake of having his writing career belittled, Jackson Bliss becomes an interpreter for a refugee and comes to see words, translations, and storytelling as important acts of resistance.
Revisiting My Grandfather’s Garden By Mojgan Ghazirad Feature During a return trip to Tehran, Mojgan Ghazirad searches for her childhood home and witnesses the damage U.S. sanctions have brought to Iranian lives.
America’s Post-Frontier Hangover By Will Meyer Feature America binged on expansion, relying on land grabs as an engine of growth and a way to externalize racial hatred. Historian Greg Grandin asks, without a frontier, what can America be?
Everything is Fine By Sara Fredman Feature Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
The End of Poker Night By Mindy Greenstein Feature Mindy Greenstein looks back on the gambling that was a big part of life with her Holocaust refugee parents.
