None of the President’s Men By Soraya Roberts Feature Journalism now is a lot more fear and insecurity and a lot less corduroy and Robert Redford, but you’d never know it from what is projected.
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
It’s Tennis, Charlie Brown By Patrick Sauer Feature An obscure character was a stand-in for the creator of Peanuts when he fell in love with tennis during the sport’s boom in the 1970s.
For the Thirsty Girl By Soraya Roberts Feature Thirst used to be desperation, now it’s aspiration. And men are finding it hard to quench.
‘What Is Missing Is Her Soul’: Women and Art, Girls and Men By Alana Mohamed Feature In a new book, Camille Laurens examines the life of the model for Degas’ masterpiece, “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But there’s still so much we don’t know.
Racism in Romance, or Why Is the Duke Always White By Michelle Weber Highlight White people: how many people still think “Fabio!” when they hear “romance novel,” raise your hands. Thought so.
Against Hustle: Jenny Odell Is Taking Her Time at the End of the World By Rebecca McCarthy Feature The attention economy is killing us and the planet. Artist and writer Jenny Odell talks about why slowing down could be the only way to survive.
Family Animals By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her new memoir, Grace Talusan fondly remembers the badly behaved dog that won her skeptical father’s heart.
A Rich Awakening By Soraya Roberts Feature The only way to get wealth equality is for the rich to give up their power, but how do you get them to do that?
Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre By Carina del Valle Schorske Feature Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
Recalling the Making of ‘Go,’ 20 Years Later By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Director Doug Liman and screenwriter John August look back on the production of their indie film Go, 20 years after its release.
How Do You Move a Warhol? Really, Really Carefully By Michelle Weber Highlight We’re gonna need more bubble wrap.
The Light Years By Longreads Feature After his parents pushed him out of their home, a teenager descended into the drug-fueled counterculture of the 1970s American West.
The Manhandling of Rock ‘N’ Roll History By Evelyn McDonnell Feature Less than 8 percent of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s inductees are women. Time for it to step up and induct an all-female class in 2020.
On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness By Soraya Roberts Feature Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.
And They Do Not Stop Until Dusk By Daisy Alioto Feature I’ve never known what it means to feel Jewish, but I still have a past — I have György Román, who painted dreams and saw nightmares.
The Makeover Scene Gets a Makeover By Soraya Roberts Feature Everyone laughs at how ridiculous makeover scenes are, but these swift internal metamorphoses aren’t much better.
‘Play Another Slow Jam, This Time Make It Sweet’ By Danielle Jackson Feature The term “slow jam” became widely popular when a song performed by Midnight Star debuted in 1983.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Reading List By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Beat poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. Here’s a reading list to celebrate the centenarian.
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.
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.
The Darwinian View of Our Storytelling Species By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What the history of folktales reveals about the role storytelling played in human evolution.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Pearls By Katy Kelleher Feature Born from irritation and intrusion, luminous and complex, surprisingly durable: pearls are rich with symbolism and saturated with pain.
Remembering Mark Hollis of Talk Talk By Tom Maxwell Feature The singer of “It’s My Life” left us a brilliant solo album, then chose to be a family man.
What to Read After ‘Leaving Neverland’ By Danielle Jackson Reading List A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’
The Teen Idol Vanishes By Soraya Roberts Feature Luke Perry’s untimely death reminds us that Dylan McKay was one of the last icons of adolescence.
Shelved: Brian Wilson’s Adult/Child By Tom Maxwell Feature Music from the time after the good vibrations ended.
It’s All In the Wrist (and the Blatant Lying) By Michelle Weber Highlight In these troubling economic times, you can’t amass a giant art collection without robbing a few hundred museums any more.
When Music Speaks to Our Experience By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Anton Webern’s Concerto, Opus 24 had the structure that was missing from one young musician’s life.
