Conversations with My Loveliest By Melissa Berman Feature Melissa Berman recalls what was said, and not said, between her and her beloved aunt as they approached her final year.
Editor’s Roundtable: One of the Most Important Pieces of Our Time, Plus Rats and French Cooking (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.
It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your Constructs By Soraya Roberts Feature Hot Girl Summer has women subverting a feminine archetype, but only if they can embody it first.
Woodstock: My Queer Love Story By Kate Walter Feature Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.
On a Wild Patch of Mississippi Soil By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Camping a wooded island along the lower Mississippi River introduces one writer to a land of legend and wildness.
Scamming Their Way to the Top of Hollow Mountan By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Southern California’s rich and famous tried to cheat to get their kids into college.
Editor’s Roundtable: Escape the Podcast By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.
Between Jesmyn and Ta-Nehisi By Katie Kosma Highlight Author Jesmyn Ward sits down with Ta-Nehisi Coates to discuss slavery, superheroes, and how much you have to hate yourself to enjoy being famous.
Whiteness on the Couch By Natasha Stovall Feature Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.
When Friendship Fades But the Images Linger By Eryn Loeb Feature Eryn Loeb looks back on a summer spent taking pictures, and a friend she lost touch with.
On Beauty and Disability By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Examining the body, disability, and the damaging idea of objective beauty.
Losing My Religion at Christian Camp By Katy Hershberger Feature Katy Hershberger recalls the way her decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned her views of faith and girlhood.
Heartbreaker By Beatrix M. Rooney Feature Beatrix M. Rooney discovers a tragic secret that may explain her brother’s descent into cruelty and violence.
Here’s What Put Thousands of Californians in the Path of a Blaze By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Forest mismanagement, political corruption, and PG&E’s corporate culture created a highly combustible situation.
Towards Chinatown By fluffysharp Feature Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.
Editor’s Roundtable: Smiles, Lies, and Promise (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.
On Silence (or, Speak Again) By Elissa Bassist Feature Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence By Longreads Feature As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.
Editor’s Roundtable: Manufactured to Go Viral (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway By Eliza Margarita Bates Feature A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
The Symbiotics of Harvesting Eider Down By Krista Stevens Highlight “There is an irresistible simplicity to the relationship between the harvesters and the eiders.”
Companion Fair? By Krista Stevens Highlight “That’s what Dad’s AAirpass and ultra-elite flying status yielded for him: lifelong bonds.”
Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax By Lisa A. Phillips Feature When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.
When to Throw a Goodbye Party By Joy Notoma Feature Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.
The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women By Ann Foster Feature How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
Why “Florida Man” Really Isn’t All that Funny By Krista Stevens Highlight “Is Florida Man a hero, a villain or a victim? And is it still okay to laugh along?” (No, it’s not.)
Whole 60 By Laura Lippman Feature The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
Can Coastal California Adapt to Climate Change? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rising sea levels and aggressive erosion could prove to be the greatest crisis modern Californians will ever face.
The Offer of a Two-Night Stand, When Just One Would Do By Suzanne Roberts Feature A guide in Puerto Rico inadvertently leads Suzanne Roberts to stop collecting men as if they were souvenirs.
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