Wrestling With the Ghosts In My Head By Janet Steen Feature Janet Steen tries to understand the shifting causes behind a decade of mysterious migraine pain.
The Precarity of Everything: On Millennial (Blacks and) Blues By Danielle Jackson Feature Reniqua Allen — the author of It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America — on Black millennials, millennial burnout, and hope in a time of uncertainty.
Lean On By Longreads Feature A declaration of dependence, excerpted from Briallen Hopper’s new essay collection.
Every Day I Write the Book By Michael Musto Feature At 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.
Almost Undefeated: The Forgotten Football Upset of 1976 By Britni de la Cretaz Feature How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.
A Second Passport By Pam Mandel Feature Normally, kibbutz volunteers visit Israel and return home. Pam Mandel went on to Egypt, and kept going . . .
What Falls to Earth By Susanna Space Feature Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.
What He Left Behind By Kira Martin Feature Kira Martin struggles through her connection – both emotional and physical – with her troubled and destructive son.
Chimayó By Longreads Feature Esmé Weijun Wang discovers a new interpretation of faith while on two kindred pilgrimages: one to find an accurate medical diagnosis, one to a sacred site in New Mexico.
The Indignities of Poverty, Compounded by the Requirement to Prove It By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her debut memoir, Stephanie Land recalls being poor, and moving with her young daughter from a homeless shelter to transitional housing.
The Hunt for Planet Nine By Shannon Stirone Feature What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
The Tale of Boozy Suzy and Her Hammer Fist By hopefiending Feature Inside the Rise and Fall of the Pillow Fight League
The Gift Economy By Joanne Solomon Feature In the desert at Burning Man, Joanne Solomon dissects the implicit transaction that defines her cross-cultural love affair.
Of Blackness and ‘Beauty’ By Morgan Jerkins Feature At an art exhibit exploring black models through Western art, Morgan Jerkins finds historical evidence of the white supremacist definitions of beauty Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom identifies in ‘Thick: and Other Essays.’
At Risk, at Home and Abroad By Joy Notoma Feature As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.
Blackstars By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure By Lauren DePino Feature Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
Cowards and Accomplices By Judith Hertog Feature In light of her own family’s experience during the Holocaust, Judith Hertog considers her ethical responsibilities in today’s world.
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2018 By Longreads Reading List The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
A Woman’s Work: The Outside Story By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson catalogues her efforts to maintain her appearance from about 1970 to 2018.
Swipe White By Jennifer Chong Schneider Feature Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone? By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.
A Portrait of the Mother as a Young Girl By Marlene Adelstein Feature Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.
Take Script, Add Snow By Jane Borden Feature The psychology behind America’s obsession with Hallmark Christmas movies.
Jack, Jacqueline — Dad By Yvonne Conza Feature Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.
Reckoning With Georgia’s Increasing Suppression of Asian American Voters By Anjali Enjeti Feature As AAPI’s become a more powerful, Democrat-leaning voting bloc, efforts to keep them from the polls intensify.
The Portrait of the Artist as a Criminal By Krista Stevens Highlight Max Harris didn’t cause the warehouse fire in which 36 people died, yet he’s being held responsible for it.
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