Wearing All the Hats: A Chat with the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue By Brendan O'Meara Feature In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Seyward Darby about “Fault Lines,” her Atavist writing debut.
Life on Screen: A Reality Television Reading List By Elizabeth Blackwell Feature Reality TV: Guilty pleasure or public service?
The Passing of a Monarch: A Reading List on Queen Elizabeth II By Alison Fishburn Feature A look at the remarkable life and complicated legacy of Queen Elizabeth II.
Odd, Genius, or Something In Between: A Reading List on Writers By Lisa Bubert Feature “Give me the weird tics, the turns of phrase, the strange beginnings. Give me the writer in their natural habitat.”
Galloping Into the Abyss By Longreads Feature Andres Beckett dreamed of flying over the crest, down into the long dark track of the Suicide Race.
“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day” By David Gambacorta Feature Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.
Final Girl, Terrible Place By Lesley Finn Feature I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.
Happy Birthday Tom: A Tom Cruise Reading List By Chloe Walker Feature Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 — time for a look back at the life of a master maverick.
The Women Who Built Grunge By Lisa Whittington-Hill Feature Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.
Queens of Infamy: Isabella of France By Anne Thériault Feature Married off at age 12, Isabella put up with her husband’s shenanigans over decades. Eventually, the She-Wolf of France had had enough.
Love Song to Costco By Yuxi Lin Feature “In the great halls of Costco, two of our greatest fears are assuaged — that of not having enough, and that of not being enough.”
Stranger Things: A Reading List of Unsolved Mysteries By Lisa Bubert Feature Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.
‘We Are Everywhere’: A Reading List for the Queer South By Spencer George Feature It is time now to listen. We are not going anywhere.
Sister of the Moon: A Stevie Nicks Reading List By jspiveycaddell Feature Six stories celebrating Stevie Nicks in honor of her birthday on May 26th.
Our Braided Bread By Benjamin Feature In my native New York, I don’t feel the need to perfume the air around me with the sweet scent of challah. But here in Iowa, there is a void I need to fill.
Cabin Fever: A Reading List for the Perpetually Isolated By Kara Devlin Feature How the pandemic made us confront what it means to be alone.
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.
Tomorrow Isn’t Over: A Reading List About Brighter Futures By Peter Hemminger Feature Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better.
The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell By Genevieve Fullan Feature Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
Reading List: Who’s Your Susan Sontag? By Brooke Nagler Feature Five longreads about the iconoclastic American writer, director, and activist.
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.”
Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline By Lisa Bubert Feature Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.
Great American Wasteland By Longreads Feature I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.
Let Go of Your Ego: A Reading List on Brian Wilson and “Pet Sounds” By Cecilia Gigliotti Feature Let’s go away for awhile and reflect on the genius of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds.” Wouldn’t it be nice?
The Sounds of Silence: A Reading List About Listening to Nature By Peter Hemminger Feature Kindling a new awareness of the outdoors wasn’t something the author predicted, but it brought a host of realizations — including the discovery of these five thoughtful longreads.
Disappearing Language: A Reading List on Losing Your Native Tongue By Pardeep Toor Feature Powerful reads on which language comes first, second, or even third.
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