Longreads editors discuss stories in Grub Street, The New Yorker, Gay Magazine, and The Verge.
Commentary
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If I Made $4 a Word, This Article Would Be Worth $10,000
Journalism’s one percent would rather make up a fake feud than address the reality of the industry’s pay disparity, which benefits them and no one else.
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This Month In Books: ‘Look at the World, and Not at the Mirror.’
This month’s books newsletter is about seeing the big picture.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editor’s Roundtable: From WeEarth to The Aunt-o-Sphere (Podcast)
Longreads editors discuss stories in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Outline, and CrimeReads.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editor’s Roundtable: Shorthand, Looking Away, Getting It Wrong (Podcast)
Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, The New Yorker, and The California Sunday Magazine.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts, Sports
Editor’s Roundtable: Gossip, Dirt, and Reality (Podcast)
Longreads editors discuss stories in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Kotaku, and The Globe and Mail.
Posted inCommentary, Podcasts
Editor’s Roundtable: Cities, And How They Used to be Good (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The CT Mirror, and Engadget.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story
‘Give It Up For My Sister’: Beyonce, Solange, and The History of Sibling Acts in Pop
Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.
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This Month In Books: ‘What Creates That Need To Leap?’
This month’s books newsletter has one foot out the door.