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. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories 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. Feature
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
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. Feature
How to (Almost) Get Away With Murder Highlight No one twigged that whenever a member of the Harrison family died, it was always just before an important hearing in a bitter child custody battle.
England’s National Health Service Is Suffering Growing Pains Highlight While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.
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.
Feature 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.
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.
Feature The Changeling Feature Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
Feature 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.
Feature 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.
Feature 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.
Feature You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent Feature A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
Feature 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.
Feature Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine Feature Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.
Feature 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.
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.
Feature 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.
Feature 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.
Feature As Innocuous as Plant No. 1 Feature William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
England’s National Health Service Is Suffering Growing Pains Highlight While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.
Feature 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.
Feature 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.
Feature 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.
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.
Feature 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.
