Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz By Krista Stevens Highlight At Hazlitt, read Hugh Ryan on the oral history of drag king Malvina Schwartz, a.k.a. Buddy Kent, a.k.a. Bubbles Kent.
America’s HGTV Obsession: A Reading List By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List These longreads explore some of HGTV’s most popular home and lifestyle shows, from House Hunters to Fixer Upper.
‘Let’s Suck This Week Less Than We Did Last Week’: An Oral History of The Stranger By Longreads Feature Twenty-five years after its debut, here is the story of an independent newspaper in Seattle that spawned Dan Savage and won a Pulitzer Prize.
On Female Friendship and the Sisters We Choose for Ourselves By Chloe Caldwell Feature Essayist Chloe Caldwell on the “sisters” we choose for ourselves, and her close relationship with her surrogate younger sister, Cheryl Strayed’s daughter Bobbi.
Birth—and Rebirth—after Bulimia By Longreads Feature In pregnancy, writer Judy Tsuei found herself confronting the eating disorder she’d recovered from and her Chinese-American upbringing—and in the process, rebirthing herself as the kind of mother her daughter would need her to be.
Full Disclosure: A Reading List About Confessions By Em Perper Reading List In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters By jelhai Feature How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.
The Family That Would Not Live By Longreads Feature What can haunted houses and their history tell us about American history and culture? Writer Colin Dickey sets out across America to investigate America’s haunted spaces in order to uncover what their ghost stories say about who we were, are, and will be.
The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List By Em Perper Reading List Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the Longreads editors.
Twilight of the Sawfish By Ben Huberman Highlight When a West African symbol vanishes, its loss is felt in the ocean — and on land.
A Reading List About Utopias By Em Perper Reading List Here are five stories about utopian societies.
The Month That Killed the Sixties By Dana Snitzky Feature An oral history of how everything went to hell in December 1969. Fred Hampton was killed by the police, the hippie spirit died at Altamont, and the Weathermen went underground.
Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast By Longreads Feature The huge, hidden cost to severing the bond between art and science.
We Need to Talk About Money: Seven Stories About Personal Finance By Em Perper Reading List For so long, conversations about money were considered gauche. With every essay and podcast episode, that taboo is broken down.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer By Maria Bustillos Feature Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?
Girlhood Gone: Notes from the New Nashville By Susannah Felts Feature After returning home to Nashville following many years away, Susannah Felts assesses the city’s changing face through the eyes of a native, and as a woman raised in the South.
All Hail the Queen: Five Stories About Pageants By Em Perper Reading List In this list, you’ll find stories about drag royalty, the price of the perfect Western wardrobe, the perils of butt glue, and more.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica By Tom Robbins Feature A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.
Roald Dahl at 100: A Reading List By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Roald Dahl, the whimsical and wicked mind behind Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and other famous children’s literature, would have turned 100 on September 13, 2016. Here are seven stories about the man behind these tales.
I Want to Know if Love is Real: Springsteen on His New Book, Born to Run By Krista Stevens Highlight At Vanity Fair, David Kamp interviews Bruce Springsteen on his upbringing, depression, and the seeds of his upcoming book, ‘Born to Run.’
Choosing to Set Him Free: The Stillbirth of Charlie Showman By Krista Stevens Highlight At The Walrus, Georgina Blanchard reflects on the stillbirth of her son, Charlie Showman.
The Pleasures of Protest: Taking on Gentrification in Chinatown By Esther Wang Feature Working as a tenant organizer in New York’s Chinatown opened Esther Wang’s eyes to the ugly—and complicated—realities of gentrification in New York City.
Back To School: A Reading List By Em Perper Reading List Bullies, teachers, classmates—it’s time to head back to school with these six stories from the The Big Roundtable, Los Angeles Times, and more.
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