Everyone’s Gotta Make a Living By Michelle Weber Highlight Composer Philip Glass was a plumber, a mover, a taxi driver — and as a child, a clerk in his father’s record store, where he learned a key lesson.
Trump’s Wall Would Devastate Big Bend National Park By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Join Nick Paumgarten on a trip down the Rio Grande to understand what we’d lose if Trump’s border wall destroys this ecosystem.
On Junot Díaz’s ‘The Silence’ and Our Uncomfortable Reckoning By Danielle Jackson Commentary The aftermath of trauma sometimes means that victims become victimizers, but we have to find a way to talk about it.
‘They’ve Forked Baby Hitler’ By Michelle Weber Highlight High-stakes time travel adventure from sci-fi writer Jo Lindsay Walton.
The Apology Tour By Jonny Auping Feature Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
One Consequence of Cannabis Legalization is Market Saturation By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Supply side economics is clogging the overstuffed bowl of Oregon’s booming cannabis market, and there are not enough lighters in Oregon to smoke all the product.
When Musical Theater Is Also a Kind of Therapy By Sari Botton Highlight For teens recovering from the Parkland shooting, performing in a production of “Spring Awakening” provides a measure of healing.
When the Amber Alert System Fails: An Abduction on Navajo Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?
We Love Moms, as Long as They Have Good Insurance By Michelle Weber Highlight In the U.S., getting pregnant can be exciting, joyful, and the first step toward a lifetime of debt.
Who Needs Jurassic Park When We Have Liaoning, China By Michelle Weber Highlight Liaoning’s wealth of fossils is helping paleontologists better understand dinosaurs’ relationship to birds — and making China a paleontology hot spot, for better or worse.
To Hug, or Not to Hug? By Emily Meg Weinstein Feature Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.
How to (Almost) Get Away With Murder By Krista Stevens Highlight No one twigged that whenever a member of the Harrison family died, it was always just before an important hearing in a bitter child custody battle.
England’s National Health Service Is Suffering Growing Pains By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.
One Coastal Scottish Village Learns the Real Meaning of Community By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Scottish village of Portpatrick saved its harbor and identity through a once-obscure ownership model, community shares.
How the NRA Uses Fear to Sell Guns in America By Krista Stevens Highlight Despite its fear-mongering tactics to sell guns, the future of the NRA — and gun manufacturers in general — is in question.
What If the Price of the American Dream Is Too High? By Michelle Weber Highlight In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.
Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa. By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.
I Have a Half Mind to Donate My Brain to Science By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Dara Bramson’s grandmother decided to donate her brain to science, so Bramson visited the donation center to learn how iot all works.
The Changeling By Alexander Chee Feature Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
The Amateur Sleuth Who Can’t Let One Case Rest By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.
Protecting Your Writing Time In This Weird Time of Ours By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Poet Patricia Lockwood offers ideas on how to keep writing in the unstable, toxic, distracting times we live in.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Chelsea G. Summers, Linda Villarosa, Ben Smith, Chappell Ellison, and Louisa Thomas.
A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture By Minda Honey Feature Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Washing the Pillow Cases Every Day By Krista Stevens Highlight Chappell Ellison would have done anything to ease her brother’s suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure By Larry Ruhl Feature A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.
A Journalist Takes Stock of His Formative Years By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An experienced reporter looks back at the hard lessons he learned reporting from Eastern Europe during a politically tumultuous time.
Women and the War on Wrinkles By Krista Stevens Highlight As women age, they lose their “pretty privilege.” As men age, they just get more powerful. Chelsea G. Summers examines the imbalance.
Welcome to the New Transnational Paradigm By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove By Jonny Auping Feature “If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
Rules for Departure By Rachel Z. Arndt Feature While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Rachel Z. Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break.
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