‘But Islam Does Not Forbid Love’: How Young Muslims Define ‘Halal Dating’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Today’s young Muslims are finding ways to develop romantic relationships and while observing Islamic beliefs forbidding pre-marital sex.
Rolling Down the Highway with the Sum Total of Human Knowledge By Michelle Weber Highlight Google had a plan to scan every book in the world. 25 million books later, the project lost its way.
Tell Me What Donut You Prefer, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are By Michelle Weber Highlight Have you ever thought really hard about donuts? Like, 7,000 words hard? Keaton Lamle did.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories by Ijeoma Oluo, Michael Hall, Erika Hayasaki, Jerry Saltz, and Caren Chesler.
Before Becoming an Art Critic, Jerry Saltz Wanted to Draw 10,000 Dante-Inspired Altarpieces By Ben Huberman Highlight On the project that almost drove Jerry Saltz into despair.
When Alzheimer’s Disease Relieves Us of the Pain in Our Past By Krista Stevens Highlight For Maria Browning’s mother, Alzheimer’s Disease has dimmed old torments.
Where Were You the First Time You Realized the Government Wasn’t Always On the Ball? By Michelle Weber Highlight The 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara galvanized environmental activism, and Pacific Standard’s oral history is a great read.
Alexander Chee: ‘He thought I wanted monogamy more than him, and I didn’t.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.
Top of the Muffin to You! 25 Great Food Moments in “Seinfeld” By Krista Stevens Highlight From the chocolate babka to the big salad, Eater serves up 25 favorite food moments from Seinfeld.
Coretta Scott King Fuelled the Civil Rights Movement with ‘Courage, Dignity, and Poise’ By Krista Stevens Highlight How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.
Opioid Addicts Are Losing Their Memories and Doctors Don’t Know Why By Krista Stevens Highlight How does opioid overdose permanently damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory?
The Slacklash Is Here. You Should Do Something About It. By Michelle Weber Highlight Is the app that ate email eating into a whole lot more—like privacy, productivity, and personal time?
#Vanlife: Selling Their Staged World, One Social Media Post at A Time By Krista Stevens Highlight Is the social media movement a form of free-spirited nomadism, or a clever selling of the soul to brands?
Haute Cuisine Has a Low Wage Problem By Ben Huberman Highlight How an army of unpaid apprentices keeps the world’s best restaurants afloat.
Ending Depression With a Push of a Button, But Only For a Moment By Michelle Weber Highlight For people with severe, depression, deep-brain stimulation offers an uncertain but potentially life-altering solution.
The (Film) Revolution Will Be Streamed By Ben Huberman Highlight “We have to get rid of the romantic part.”
‘S-Town’ Host Brian Reed Talks Ethics in Journalism By Krista Stevens Highlight Katie Kilkenny interviews S-Town host Brian Reed on ethics and his approach to reporting on the popular investigative podcast.
Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone By Krista Stevens Highlight In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re featuring stories from Richard Beck, Rebecca Mead, Sarah Barker, Dylan Matthews, and Sarah Scoles.
‘Hopely I’ll See You Again’: An Unlikely but Wonderful Love Affair By Krista Stevens Highlight Noah Cho ruminates on why his blond, all-American mother chose his “barely bilingual” Korean father.
The Inevitable and Magical Life of Beverly Cleary, All 101 Years of It By Michelle Weber Highlight The beloved creator of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins enters her second century.
Why Dylan Matthews Donated His Kidney to a Stranger and You Should Too By Krista Stevens Highlight At Vox, Matthews recounts the the long and rewarding process of donating a kidney to a perfect stranger.
Sesame Street’s New Autistic Character Could Be Groundbreaking By Krista Stevens Commentary At Vox, Dylan Matthews posits that Julia could have a real influence on how society embraces those with autism.
What it Means to be Korean in the West By Krista Stevens Highlight While searching for a Korean radish to make her grandmother’s soup, Vivien Lee meditates on family and food.
Is That a Pillowcase Full of Human Hair, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? By Michelle Weber Highlight Annie Correal’s story on the last New York wigmakers has a little bit of everything: celebrity gossip, religious scandals, and of course, wigs.
Curiosity, Unfettered: Margaret Atwood as the Prophet of Dystopia By Krista Stevens Highlight Rebecca Mead’s profile in The New Yorker covers the resonance of The Handmaid’s Tale in Donald Trump’s America.
In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale: Overcoming the Evil Stepmother Stereotype By Krista Stevens Highlight Leslie Jamison explores the fraught role of stand-in parent as she considers her new life as a stepmother to a six-year-old.
Winnipeg’s Indigenous Bear Clan Patrol Protects the Vulnerable By Krista Stevens Highlight Vice’s Geraldine Malone walks the streets with group of volunteers dedicated to fighting overdoses.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List This week, we’re featuring stories by Reeves Wiedeman, Monica Mark, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Daniel Duane, and Danny Chau.
‘BRB, Killing ISIS Guys’: An American Bro in Syria By Sari Botton Highlight When Brace Belden left his job in San Francisco to fight ISIS, he had no idea he’d become a prominent figure in the Syrian Civil War.
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