• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
Skip to content
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
Longreads

Longreads

Longreads : The best longform stories on the web

  • Support Us
Support Us

Adrian Daub

Posted inStory

But Who Tells Them What To Sing?

by Adrian Daub September 2, 2021October 13, 2022

“And thus another Hollywood tradition was born: film choruses belting out perfectly nonsensical prose with utter conviction.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Feature, Featured, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

All Hail the Rat King

by Adrian Daub December 11, 2019December 30, 2022

From Martin Luther to The Nutcracker, Germany’s original national nightmare was a tangled knot of writhing rats.

Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Featured, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Return of the Face

by Adrian Daub October 3, 2018October 19, 2022

Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Story

Here at the End of All Things

by Adrian Daub August 24, 2017October 19, 2022

On losing oneself in the geography of fantasy worlds, from Middle Earth to Westeros.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Story

“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack

by Adrian Daub December 8, 2016October 19, 2022

How Inception changed the way we listen to movies.

Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice for California Users
  • Press
  • RSS Feed
  • Opt-out preferences

Part of the

family

© 2023 Longreads. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}