When Media Miscalculations Pivot Talented People Out of a Job By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Pivoting to video is only one of many ways media workers lose their jobs, but it’s still a horrible way.
Infatuation By Deena ElGenaidi Feature Deena ElGenaidi considers the ways in which adoring Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine from afar in her teens and early 20s provided a safe outlet for expressing desire.
(Who Gets to) Just Up and Move By Nicole Walker Feature Nicole Walker contemplates the nature of migration, and realizes there are two places you can never escape: the planet and your own head.
If My Scars Could Talk By Tega Oghenechovwen Feature Tega Oghenechovwen contemplates the ways in which acute childhood trauma can infect and compromise relationships later in life.
Witness Mami Roar By Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez Feature Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez remembers growing up undocumented in the shadow of her mother and father’s tumultuous relationship.
Renovating a Family By Christine Kalafus Feature After her husband’s infidelity, Christine Kalafus re-architected her marriage. Now she needs to let her son in on the plans.
A Beloved Art Critic Sings His Swan Song By Sari Botton Highlight “Drink was destroying my life. Tobacco only shortens it, with the best parts over anyway.”
The Christmas Tape By Wendy McClure Feature Wendy McClure recounts how an old audio tape of holiday music becomes a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.
On Course for Certain Disaster By Krista Stevens Highlight “Ten Navy sailors were killed and scores more were injured. It was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in 40 years.” And it was all avoidable.
Don’t Let Old Wounds Die Out By Longreads Commentary Our last editors’ roundtable of the season, with guest Nick Chrastil.
An Addict, a Nurse, and a Christmas Resurrection By Suzanne Ohlmann Feature Working the night shift on an intensive care unit, Suzanne Ohlmann brushes up against death, Jesus, and her biological father.
How Rob Krar Helps Others Outrun Depression By Krista Stevens Highlight “I think a good way to describe my depression is an inability to feel happiness. It’s just this gray zone. I have this beautiful life that I can’t appreciate.”
Seedy By Elizabeth Logan Harris Feature Elizabeth Logan Harris recalls an incident in ’70s-era Radio City Music Hall when unwanted attention to her teenage body put her in league with her father.
In Jo’s Image By Jeanna Kadlec Feature Jeanna Kadlec considers the impact of Little Women’s matriarchy — and its heroine — on the formation of her own queer identity.
Who was Behind the First State-Sponsored Computer Attack? The Russians, Quelle Surprise By Krista Stevens Highlight “Don’t go screwing with information that belongs to innocent people!”
A Woman’s Work: Becoming a Home of One’s Own By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson considers what it takes to recover from grief, build strength for the future, and become one’s own center of gravity again.
The Guy who Ordered a Hit On His Stepmother for $5 By Krista Stevens Highlight Death, delivered as per your instructions.
Queens of Infamy: Mariamne I By Anne Thériault Feature In the ancient hot mess known as Judea, a young queen had to navigate a self-destructive royal dynasty and one of history’s worst husbands.
Purging the Unhealthy Value System of the American Literary World By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It’s time writers free themselves from concepts like “break out books” and “making it.”
They Were Extortionists and the Calls Came from Inside the Prison By Krista Stevens Highlight “At least 442 service members across almost every branch of the armed forces had been conned—by prisoners—out of a total of more than half a million dollars.”
From Kyiv to Kentucky By pipposts Feature California native Katya Cengel contemplates whether living in Ukraine prepared her for life in the South.
The Poetry We Need and the Chitchat We Don’t By Longreads Commentary What we all need to hear right now, with special guest Marisa Siegel, Editor in Chief of The Rumpus.
Telling About Auschwitz, Before It’s Too Late By Sari Botton Highlight His lover in Auschwitz helped him survive. Now he’s sharing his memories to help prevent the worst from happening again.
We Are All We Have By Megan Stielstra Feature While caring for her mother post-surgery and her grandmother during her final days, Megan Stielstra wonders who’s really taking care of who.
Self Portrait as a Human Interest Story By Emi Nietfeld Feature Reflecting on the adversities and victories of her youth, Emi Nietfeld interrogates how narratives of resilience minimize suffering.
Responding With Weapons to Racism in Colorado Territory By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Reexamining the motives of Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers.
Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia By Krista Stevens Highlight “The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”
‘The American People Have Been Constantly Lied To’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.”
Brazil’s Roads to Destruction By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Every year, vehicles on Brazil’s ever-expending road network hit over 400 million Brazilian animals, causing series declines in some species — and Brazil isn’t the only country expanding its infrastructure.
Where are the Gay Ladies of Cambodia? By Lindsey Danis Feature Honeymooning in Cambodia, Lindsey Danis and her wife seek refuge in queer spaces, but struggle to find the acceptance granted to male travelers.
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