A Close Look at the Thing We Call ‘Celebrity’ By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why do we care about famous people?
How to Predict the Unpredictable By Katie Gutierrez Feature After the death of her dog, Katie Gutierrez grapples with the ripple effects of her decisions — and how to live with uncertainty as a mother.
Editor’s Roundtable: Fans, ‘Grams and Installment Plans By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss recent stories in Inc., The Cut, and The Baffler.
How The Cult of Masculinity Can Poison Creative Writing Programs By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight There are numerous ways to tell stories. In her turn MFA program, one writer encountered a literary culture that espoused gendered aesthetics and fostered toxic masculinity.
The Art of Acceptance Speech Giving By Michael Musto Feature Michael Musto looks back at some of the best, worst, and weirdest instances of performers expressing gratitude as they received their shiny trophies.
How Thailand’s Rich Escape Prosecution By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Thailand’s criminal justice system is plauged by an accepted double standard, where corruption prevails.
Keeping My Promise to Popo By Anne Liu Kellor Feature As Anne Liu Kellor says goodbye to her Chinese grandmother in the hospital, she taps into buried memories and family trauma.
Tramp Like Us By Longreads Feature Can an American family learn to become outdoorsy in New Zealand, where the natural world is part of the national DNA? Sort of.
McDreamy, McSteamy, and McConnell By Samuel Ashworth Feature Congressional fan fiction is real, it’s glorious, and it might be reshaping our political world.
It Comes in Waves By Lilly Dancyger Feature Years after her cousin was killed, Lilly Dancyger is haunted by images of murdered women in the news.
Welcome to the Military-Educational Complex By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The way schools choose to redesign themselves to protect students from shootings will determine how schools look, and how well students can learn in them, for decades to come.
What’s Happening to My Body? By Devorah Heitner Feature Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.
Prayers to Lucia By Heather Quinn Feature When a high-risk pregnancy jeopardizes their eyesight, Heather Quinn explores the expectations of motherhood and finds common ground with a patron saint.
After Three Children, Reclaiming My Body and My Mind By Ukamaka Olisakwe Feature In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.
New York City Shredder By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The West Coast may have invented skateboarding, but imaginative New Yorker Tyshawn Jones keeps pushing the limits of what this slab of wood can do.
Editor’s Roundtable: Better Than Working for a Symphony Orchestra (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and the Kenyon Review.
Fugitive Justice By Jennifer Lunden Feature After stumbling upon the scene of the capture of an escaped murderer, clinical social worker Jennifer Lunden grapples with the polarities of innocence and guilt, social neglect and social justice.
The Bonds Beyond Language By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Twins have bonds that exist beyond words, and they fill the gaps left by what cannot be said.
Washington D.C.’s New Media Landscape Is Niche By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight General readers won’t have heard of their publications, but Washington D.C.’s trade press cater to specialist readers who pay top dollar for the beats they cover.
Anaphylaxis of the Mind By Alyson Pomerantz Feature Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.
Editor’s Roundtable: Time Well Spent (Podcast) By Eva Voinigescu Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Jezebel, Governing, and The New Yorker.
When Your Social Worker Thinks You’re Ungrateful By Dina Nayeri Feature Dina Nayeri’s patience is tried as she accompanies an immigrant family into a bureaucratic nightmare.
When Running Toward Yourself Looks Like Running Away By Amber Leventry Feature Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.
Not Homeless Enough for Assistance, But Still Without a Home By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The working homeless exist in a modern purgatory.
White Looks By Soraya Roberts Feature Should white critics cover black culture? Only if they’re able to own their whiteness.
Editor’s Roundtable: Antidotes to Loneliness (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.
Can Tech Become Ethical, If It Learns to Be Mindful First? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Is tech disrupting spirituality, or is spirituality finally disrupting tech?
Surf Where You Least Expect It By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Do you want reliable California breaks with reliable California crowds, or are you ready to take your chances in frigid Irish water where you’ll share waves with no one else?
Riding the Highs and Lows with My Mom By Valentina Valentini Feature On a night out in the Hollywood hills, Valentina Valentini’s lifelong role-reversal with her mother becomes upended.
Looking for Carolina Maria de Jesus By Tari Ngangura Feature For a brief period in the 1960s, the Afro-Brazilian author of the memoir “Child of the Dark” was one of the most well-known writers in the world.
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