How Much is Too Much to Save a Dying Cat? By s.e. smith Feature A series of losses prompts s.e. smith to wonder why, if it’s inevitable, we tend to view death as failure.
Bringing Up the Bodies: How NecroSearch Helps Police to Locate the Dead By Krista Stevens Highlight Why do they volunteer their time in such a grisly enterprise? To bring closure to the families of the dead.
The Opera Lover Who Composed “Bat Out of Hell” By Ben Huberman Highlight On the origins of the quintessential rock aria, and the powerhouse singer that served as its muse.
How to Replace a Ghost By Alana Massey Feature En route to a wedding, Alana Massey is haunted by the ghosts of relationships past.
Language Acquisition By Diana Spechler Feature Diana Spechler recalls fleeing her life in New York City for a new one with a painter in his village in central Mexico.
The Teen Girls Who Defied Boko Haram By Krista Stevens Highlight The bravest members of the Nigerian resistance are the teenage girls who refuse to become tools of terrorism.
The Female Fracker: A Rare Species in North Dakota By Krista Stevens Highlight Imagine being the only woman living with 200 roughnecks — risking your personal safety every day — just to make a buck.
The Wolf In a Puffy Marmot Jacket By Krista Stevens Highlight Even when his tall tales became erratic, women still didn’t want to believe Jeff Caldwell was ripping them off.
On Identity, Miyazaki, and Japanese Bathhouses By Ben Huberman Highlight On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.
The Sacred Right of Universal Narcotic Entitlement By Michelle Weber Highlight Inventing maladies and marketing drugs to relieve them isn’t a new m.o. for pharmaceutical companies. OxyContin is its fullest and most terrible expression.
The Prophet Will See You Now By Michelle Weber Highlight At the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, miracles (supposedly) happen every day.
TFW You’re Training the Worker That Will Take Your Job Away By Krista Stevens Highlight What do you do when you’ve only got a G.E.D and your high-paying union job goes to Mexico?
Another Year, Another Fraternity Hazing Death By Michelle Weber Highlight For 12 hours, Tim Piazza fought for his life as his frat brothers did nothing to help.
Donald Trump’s War On African Women By Annie Hylton Feature Under the Global Gag Rule, medical professionals cannot counsel a woman to seek an abortion — even in cases where it will save her life.
Can Detroit’s Legendary Techno Scene Survive Gentrification? By Ben Huberman Highlight On the growing tension between techno’s gritty origins and its current velvet-rope tendencies.
The House Where Revolution Went to Die By Michelle Weber Highlight The House on the Embankment housed hundreds of Soviet leaders. Eventually, it was the former house of hundreds of purge victims.
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: America’s Secret Weapon in World War II By Longreads Feature How “know-nothings” Elizebeth Smith Friedman and William F. Friedman became the greatest codebreakers of their era.
How Can You Fear an Invisible Enemy? By Michelle Weber Highlight Radiation’s threat to humanity is potentially absolute, yet worryingly abstract.
Trans, Homeless, and Turning Tricks to Survive By Krista Stevens Highlight Homeless trans teens: America’s most vulnerable population.
The Vegan Mayo that Dare Not Speak its Name By Ben Huberman Highlight Why is a vegan-food startup avoiding the term “vegan”?
“That Was the Final Straw”: On Reporting From Venezuela as It Spiraled Downward By Ben Huberman Commentary During two chaotic weeks in July, Christian Borys chronicled the stories of young activists facing an impossible dilemma: exile or dictatorship.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Caitlin Dickerson, Aaron Edwards, Alice Su, Jia Tolentino, and James Somers.
We Watch HGTV for the Destruction, Not the Makeovers By Ben Huberman Highlight Drywall, meet sledgehammer.
You Can See the Battle Scars By Christian Borys Feature How Venezuela’s resistance movement — and the country’s democracy — reached a breaking point during one week in July.
‘Hotchickenfrication’: One Fowl Enterprise By Krista Stevens Highlight The origin story of Prince’s Hot Chicken, and how imitators are polluting this spicy comfort food.
Did You Happen to See the Most Interesting Man in the World? (He’s In Room 328) By Michelle Weber Highlight Libraries contain more than books — they have archives, and the archivists want to help you explore them.
28 Voices From the Storm By Krista Stevens Highlight The before, during, and after of how Hurricane Harvey battered Texas for five days.
Michelle Dean Uncovers Some Truths About Snopes By Krista Stevens Highlight The history of Snopes, the legendary internet fact-finding site.
The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men By Krista Stevens Highlight Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.
Changing of the Guard, Bee-Style By Ben Huberman Highlight When a queen bee dies, both her subjects and her beekeeper need to process the loss.
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