It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your Constructs By Soraya Roberts Feature Hot Girl Summer has women subverting a feminine archetype, but only if they can embody it first. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
What Does It Mean To Be Moved? By Jennifer Wilson Feature We can all remember a time when the wind touched us when we needed touching, pushed us along when we were unsure.
Images Present Themselves: A Conversation With Photographer Burk Uzzle By Tom Maxwell Feature Some of the most iconic images get captured when you’re just out for a stroll. What you do with these images is a political act.
Pages You Can Dance To: A Book List By Brittany Allen Feature Either Martin Mull or Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello once said writing about music is as pointless as dancing about architecture. Which doesn’t account for how I’ve danced to all these books.
Editor’s Roundtable: One of the Most Important Pieces of Our Time, Plus Rats and French Cooking (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.
Woodstock: My Queer Love Story By Kate Walter Feature Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.
On a Wild Patch of Mississippi Soil By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Camping a wooded island along the lower Mississippi River introduces one writer to a land of legend and wildness.
I’ll Be Loving You Forever By Rebecca Schuman Feature My best friend and the New Kids on the Block, 30 years later.
Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX By Britni de la Cretaz Feature As a high schooler and new mom, Jane Rubel didn’t consider herself a feminist. She just knew that if husbands and fathers were eligible to play high school basketball, she should have been, too.
‘Horror Is a Soothing Genre … It’s Upfront About How Scary It Is To Be a Woman.’ By Laura Barcella Feature Sady Doyle discusses the connection she draws between society’s monstrous treatment of women and woman’s archetypal monstrosity.
This Month in Books: ‘The Minor Figure Yields to the Chorus’ By Dana Snitzky Commentary I’m reading this book right now called “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.” It’s a recursive story-within-a-story sort of thing, and it’s giving me nightmares.
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019 By Danielle Jackson Reading List An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.
The Young Man and the Sea Sponge By Darryn King Feature SpongeBob SquarePants turned 20 this summer. This is the story of how a marine biology teacher named Stephen Hillenburg gave life to an animated character who continues to delight fans worldwide.
Whole 60 By Laura Lippman Feature The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX By Britni de la Cretaz Feature As a high schooler and new mom, Jane Rubel didn’t consider herself a feminist. She just knew that if husbands and fathers were eligible to play high school basketball, she should have been, too.
Reading Lessons By Irina Dumitrescu Feature You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
Nestlé Is Sucking the World’s Aquifers Dry By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The multinational corporation is gradually privatizing a natural resource.
Whiteness on the Couch By Natasha Stovall Feature Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.
A Minor Figure By Longreads Feature While searching for photographs that depict black young women and girls living free in the second and third generations born after slavery, Saidiya Hartman finds a disturbing image.
What Does It Mean To Be Moved? By Jennifer Wilson Feature We can all remember a time when the wind touched us when we needed touching, pushed us along when we were unsure.
Pages You Can Dance To: A Book List By Brittany Allen Feature Either Martin Mull or Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello once said writing about music is as pointless as dancing about architecture. Which doesn’t account for how I’ve danced to all these books.
‘Horror Is a Soothing Genre … It’s Upfront About How Scary It Is To Be a Woman.’ By Laura Barcella Feature Sady Doyle discusses the connection she draws between society’s monstrous treatment of women and woman’s archetypal monstrosity.
This Month in Books: ‘The Minor Figure Yields to the Chorus’ By Dana Snitzky Commentary I’m reading this book right now called “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.” It’s a recursive story-within-a-story sort of thing, and it’s giving me nightmares.
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019 By Danielle Jackson Reading List An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.
Editor’s Roundtable: One of the Most Important Pieces of Our Time, Plus Rats and French Cooking (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019 By Danielle Jackson Reading List An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.
Editor’s Roundtable: Escape the Podcast By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.
Editor’s Roundtable: Smiles, Lies, and Promise (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.
Editor’s Roundtable: Manufactured to Go Viral (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.
Woodstock: My Queer Love Story By Kate Walter Feature Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.
I’ll Be Loving You Forever By Rebecca Schuman Feature My best friend and the New Kids on the Block, 30 years later.
Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX By Britni de la Cretaz Feature As a high schooler and new mom, Jane Rubel didn’t consider herself a feminist. She just knew that if husbands and fathers were eligible to play high school basketball, she should have been, too.
Whiteness on the Couch By Natasha Stovall Feature Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor: An Anti-Hate Pop Culture Syllabus By Soraya Roberts Feature Media and entertainment grounded in empathy are a critical part of a saner culture — and we can all help by actively producing, seeking, and supporting it.
