Low Country, High Water: A Reading List for a South Under Climate Change By Spencer George Feature How do you love a place that is sinking?
The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting By Robert Isenberg Feature More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.
The Emptying By Longreads Feature “I’m amazed at our human capacity to adapt to the unbearable. Almost anything can seem normal if it’s inflicted on us long enough.”
The Cabin on the Mountain By Colin Dickey Feature “Sometimes, the mechanism of the answer is something ludicrously complex, a thing that must be pieced out bit by bit. Other times, the solution requires retooling your perspective.”
Dreaming of Water with Tiger Salamanders By Sam Keck Scott Feature “There is no more urgent form of communication than going extinct.”
Searching for the Mountaintop in Upstate New York By Benje Williams Feature A family confronts its racial past along the Appalachian Trail.
What Death Means to Love and What Love Means to Death By Krista Stevens Highlight “But perhaps it’s neither here nor there how we think about death. Perhaps the work that must be done is in how we think about life.”
Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race By Devin Kelly Feature Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.
The Big, Bonkers, British, Christmas Pantomime By Carolyn Wells Feature Oh, yes I did! An attempt to explain the bizarre tradition of the British Christmas pantomime.
Best of 2021: Personal Essays By Longreads Feature The personal essays that we can’t stop thinking about.
Debt Demands a Body By Kristin Collier Feature “The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
The Professor By Irina Dumitrescu Feature “Maybe the most powerful person is the one who dares to refuse the gift.”
Nine Longreads Stories Recognized Across This Year’s ‘Best American’ and ‘Year’s Best’ Series By Longreads Highlight These essays and features across science, food, and sports are worth a read.
Me and You By William Torrey Feature Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.
Twenty Years Later: A 9/11 Reading List By Krista Stevens Feature Six stories on the immediate and ongoing aftermath of the attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001.
A Tall Tree Reading List By Carolyn Wells Feature Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.
The State of Waiting By Caitlin Dwyer Feature Separated by war, boundaries, and immigration policies they cannot control, one young Yemeni couple refuses to give up on love.
The State We Are In: Neither Here, There, nor in Heaven By Madhushree Ghosh Feature On vaccine privilege in America and COVID-19 inequities in India.
You Robbie, You Baka By Brian Trapp Feature On having a twin with cerebral palsy and navigating school bullies.
‘The Price For Your Return to Normal Is My Life’: On Dismantling Layers of the Doll By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”
Listen to the Sound of My Voice By Seyward Darby Highlight How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
Good Naked vs. Bad Naked By Krista Stevens Highlight “As marriages go, ours is an infant. Soft-skulled and milk-breathed. We’ve been married for two years, together for five.”
Pop Culture Portrays OCD as a Blessing. It’s Not. By Krista Stevens Highlight “The Wall Street Journal recently used the headline ‘We All Need OCD Now’ for an article on COVID-19 … Finally, my debilitating mental illness has a timely hook!”
Out There I Have to Smile By Heather Lanier Feature Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.
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