Memorializing a Glacier and Hoping for the Future By Sari Botton Highlight Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”
We’re All Tourists Now, So Let’s Stop with the Endless, Tedious Quests for Authenticity By Ben Huberman Highlight In Iceland, overtourism has transformed the island in a few short years — and locals and visitors alike try to grapple with the change.
Olympic Destroyer: The Cyberattack on the 2018 Winter Games By Krista Stevens Highlight It was Russia, in the cybertubes, using stolen passwords, a secret backdoor, and layers upon layers of false flag cloak work meant to stump security analysts.
Research and Rescue: Saving Species from Ourselves By Ashley Braun Feature We’re developing high-tech genetic tools to pour new life into animals lost to human destruction. Deciding how — and whether — to use that power is as complex as the science behind it.
You Talk Real Good By Alison Stine Feature Alison Stine confronts the ways in which being hard of hearing has made her job search more difficult.
Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences By Longreads Reading List Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.
Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism By Alicia Lutes Feature Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.
Working To Live Often Means Giving Up Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight You can’t have work-life balance when work dictates the balance.
The Great Fiber-Optic Fraudster of Alaska By Krista Stevens Highlight To this day, only Elizabeth Pierce knows why she defrauded partners and investors by forging contract signatures.
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo-Hoo By Christy Lynch Feature A Childless Millennial’s Guide to Falling Apart at Disney World
Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage By Longreads Feature Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.
Same Sh*itty Media Men, Different Day By Sari Botton Highlight Rebecca Traister asks how NBC can possibly change its misogynist culture if it keeps the same bad actors at the top.
Old Dudes On Skateboards By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.
Happiness is Fleeting By Longreads Feature Good grief, adolescence is difficult. Luckily Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell found solidarity and guidance from The Peanuts Gang.
The Thriving eBay Cheeto Community By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Uniquely shaped Cheetos go for big bucks online, but is anyone really buying?
I Had To Leave My Mother So I Could Survive By Elisabet Velasquez Feature Elisabet Velasquez reckons with a lifetime of disharmony with her religious, mentally ill mother.
Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.
Korean Director Bong Joon-ho on How to Laugh in the Face of Horror By Krista Stevens Highlight Korean director Bong Joon-ho on his new film, Parasite
Dispatch from Puerto Nowhere By Robert Lopez Feature Robert Lopez examines what it means to be an assimilated American from Puerto Rico, and what was gained and lost in the process.
Bikini Kill — and My Bunkmates — Taught Me How to Unleash My Anger By Longreads Feature While away at summer camp, Melissa Febos discovers the power of her generation’s rage and feminism.
How to Survive a Vivisection By Rachel Somerstein Feature After a traumatic experience with childbirth, Rachel Somerstein struggles to bond with her newborn daughter.
Editor’s Roundtable: Climate of the Future, Music of the Past By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.
The (Loud) Soundtrack to My Struggle with Faith By Anna Gazmarian Feature After being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Anna Gazmarian grapples with her evangelical upbringing, and finds solace in screamo music.
McDonald’s Starts Serving McTech to Survive in the Modern Age By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rapidly modernizing has caused the McDonald’s company some growing pains, but embracing Big Tech might just save them from their old analog self.
Hello, Forgetfulness; Hello, Mother By Max Feature Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.
The Girl I Didn’t Save By Longreads Feature Cameron Dezen Hammon reflects on her frustrations as a Christian music minister for the terminally ill, unable to heal a cancer patient she cared for, and struggling to be compassionate at her belligerent Jewish father’s bedside.
Editor’s Roundtable: Democracy Needs Healing Crystals By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Politico.
To Love and Protect Each Other — From Bigotry By Jay Deitcher Feature After Jay Deitcher sits silent as his wife is verbally assaulted by his father’s racist friend, he grapples with the ways his family has been muted by trauma.
Your Healing Crystals Are Part of the Capitalist Exploitation Machine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Healing crystals move from poor villages to first world consumers along a trail of death, ecological destruction, and capitalistic concentration of wealth.
The Bread Thread By Emily Weitzman Feature Emily Weitzman condemns the persistence of slut shaming over different stages in her life, and combats it with humor and…bread.
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