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My Brother, My Self
By Katie Prout Feature

Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
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Shelved: The Lady of Rage’s Eargasm
By Tom Maxwell Feature

Rapper Robin Allen’s hit song bypassed the hip-hop boys club that held her debut solo album back.
Queens of Infamy: Zenobia
By Anne Thériault Feature

In third-century Syria, a widowed monarch dared to be wildly ambitious — and almost brought the Roman Empire to its knees.
The Longreads 2018 Holiday Gift Book Guide
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

We’ve made a catalog of books we featured in 2018 that we think would make great gifts.

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CBS Paid the Actress Eliza Dushku $9.5 Million to Settle Harassment Claims
By Rachel Abrams , John Koblin  / The New York Times
His Only Living Boy
By Casey Parks  / The Trace
My Brother, My Self
By Katie Prout  / Longreads
H-E-B Forever
By Priya Krishna  / Eater
He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There.
By Elizabeth Weil  / The New York Times Magazine
How the IRS Was Gutted
By Paul Kiel , Jesse Eisinger  / ProPublica
American Ghostwriter
By Sean Patrick Cooper  / The Baffler
Is the Women’s March Melting Down?
By Jacob Siegel , Leah McSweeney  / Tablet Magazine
How WhatsApp Fuels Fake News and Violence in India
By Timothy McLaughlin  / Wired
Queens of Infamy: Zenobia
By Anne Thériault  / Longreads
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Remembering Singer Nancy Wilson
By Tom Maxwell Feature

The influential singer’s voice cut across genres and decades, and it will continue to.
When No One Pulls the Trigger, the Gun Is to Blame
By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight

At The Trace, Casey Parks tells the story of a Mississippi father seeking justice after learning a faulty rifle is responsible for the death of his younger son.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
By Longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, Sean Patrick Cooper, and Priya Krishna.
Longreads Best of 2018: Investigative Reporting
By Longreads Reading List

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting. Lindsay Gellman Senior Researcher for investigative journalist Ronan Farrow Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis (Linda Villarosa, The New York Times) Villarosa’s unflinching examination of […]
Longreads Best of 2018: Science and Technology
By Longreads Reading List

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in science and tech.

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Thank You for Not Being Afraid, Pat Maginnis
By Michelle Weber Highlight

Compromise and political reform only take you so far; sometimes you need to shake the whole system.
Piecing Together the Story of an Oregon Serial Killer
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

Finally telling the story of the women who were raped and murdered along Oregon’s Highway 20.
Seasonal Associate
By Longreads Feature

No longer able to live on her freelance writing income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a holiday seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center.
‘It Happened to My Father the Way It Happened’: The Truth About Green Book
By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight

At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
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The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public
By Longreads Feature

Watergate revealed that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious American brands, had been making bribes to politicians not only at home but in foreign countries.
The Neanderthal
By Jen Gilman Porat Feature

Jen Gilman Porat seeks a genetic excuse for her husband’s barbaric table manners.

Who Cares? : On Nags, Martyrs, the Women Who Give Up, and the Men Who Don’t Get It
By Longreads Feature

Some women successfully free themselves from emotional labor, but I don’t want to give up the work of caring. I just want others to care as well.
The Queer Generation Gap
By Soraya Roberts Feature

How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.
The City I Love Is Destroying Itself
By Nicole Antebi Feature

Nicole Antebi interviews historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso from the City itself.

What Has Everyone Got Against Dave Matthews?
By Krista Stevens Commentary

What’s not to like about Dave Matthews, asks Allison Williams.

Books
Seasonal Associate
By Longreads Feature

No longer able to live on her freelance writing income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a holiday seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center.
This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side
By Adam Boffa Feature

Solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction, demands radical optimism of its writers and readers. It takes the apocalypse as given, but doesn’t assume the worst of people living through it.
Guy Gunaratne on the ‘Push-Pull of Ancestry and Meaning’ in London
By Hope Reese Feature

Guy Gunaratne’s Man Booker-longlisted “In Our Mad and Furious City” recognizes multiple, overlapping versions of London and its inhabitants, examining the ways violence can bubble up through the city’s fissures.
Did the Modern Novel Kill Charles Bovary?
By Ankita Chakraborty Feature

Jean Améry, the Austrian essayist and Primo Levi’s former barrack-mate at Auschwitz, wrote one last novel before he died. Its six angry chapters are written as if by Charles Bovary, accusing Flaubert of ruining his life.
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Current Events
Remembering Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks
By Tom Maxwell Feature

The Buzzcocks’ enduring influence might have surprised punk frontman Pete Shelley, but not his fans.
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t)
By Michelle Weber Highlight

Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.
No Justice For Old Men
By Michelle Weber Highlight

In 2018, we’re inured to stories of a powerful men taking advantage of girls and getting away with it, but Jeffrey Epstein’s story still manages to horrify.
The Case for Letting Malibu Burn
By Longreads Feature

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
Sign On the Dotted Line to Ensure Your Own Destruction
By Michelle Weber Highlight

New York’s court system aids and abets predatory lenders who prey on small business owners.
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Essays & Criticism
My Brother, My Self
By Katie Prout Feature

Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side
By Adam Boffa Feature

Solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction, demands radical optimism of its writers and readers. It takes the apocalypse as given, but doesn’t assume the worst of people living through it.
Longreads Best of 2018: Essays
By Longreads Reading List

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.
Duet for a Small Porpoise’s Extinction
By Kimi Eisele Feature

Kimi Eisele contemplates coherence, the near extinction of the vaquita, and the expensive bycatch of being human.

The Neanderthal
By Jen Gilman Porat Feature

Jen Gilman Porat seeks a genetic excuse for her husband’s barbaric table manners.

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