Which Way to Westeros? By Carolyn Wells Highlight With a plethora of fantasy appearing on streaming services, we take a look back at Adrian Daub’s essay on world-building maps.
Reading Doesn’t Have to Mean Keeping Your Books Forever By Peter Rubin Highlight “The paradox of the library in our time is that it aspires to be vast but is also selective and bounded – a tiny droplet of material in a seemingly limitless sea of content.”
‘We Deserve So Much More Than Police, Prisons, and Jails’: Scalawag Takes On Emmy-Winning Television By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight We recommend these incisive essays on Abbott Elementary, The White Lotus, and The Dropout in Scalawag’s series on pop culture and justice.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
The Emptying By Longreads Feature “I’m amazed at our human capacity to adapt to the unbearable. Almost anything can seem normal if it’s inflicted on us long enough.”
The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell By Genevieve Fullan Feature Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
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.
Bones, Bones: How to Articulate a Whale By Peter Wayne Moe Feature “I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”
Charting Worlds: Five Longreads About Maps By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List From fantasylands to unique cartographers (including one that’s non-human), here are five stories about maps.
Selling Mayfair: The Very Different World of Prime Central London Realtors By Carolyn Wells Highlight On the fascinating world of London real estate.
How a Hacker Named P4x Took Down North Korea’s Internet By Krista Stevens Highlight North Korea hacked him. Things got personal.
The Unlikely Hero in George Saunders’ Short Story, ‘The Falls’ By Krista Stevens Highlight And he “…stopped in his tracks, wondering what in the world two little girls were doing alone in a canoe speeding toward the Falls, apparently oarless.”
What Death Means to Love and What Love Means to Death By Krista Stevens Highlight “But perhaps it’s neither here nor there how we think about death. Perhaps the work that must be done is in how we think about life.”
Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race By Devin Kelly Feature Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.
Nine Longreads Stories Recognized Across This Year’s ‘Best American’ and ‘Year’s Best’ Series By Longreads Highlight These essays and features across science, food, and sports are worth a read.
Twenty Years Later: A 9/11 Reading List By Krista Stevens Feature Six stories on the immediate and ongoing aftermath of the attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001.
Bringing Species Back … From the Brink By Carolyn Wells Highlight “You could actually restore a species to be even more diverse and healthier than it was before, Church says. “You can include diversity from multiple points in the globe and multiple points in time.””
Sniffing Out Love By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Instead of swiping, the strategy is wiping: namely, one’s perspiration onto a cotton pad.”
A Bike Race, Family, and Loss By Carolyn Wells Highlight “We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”
Nelly the Elephant Packed Her Trunk … and Went on the Run By Carolyn Wells Highlight Campaigners want circus elephants placed in specially built sanctuaries. But their owners insist being separated from their human “families” would be traumatic.
Zoom Towns — Where Tourists Never Leave By Carolyn Wells Highlight “There’s another population of people who came and never left: those freed by COVID from cubicles and work commutes.”
Even the Steam Had a Shadow By Longreads Feature “He couldn’t remember coming here, or going anywhere. He looked down at himself. With a writhe of horror, he found he couldn’t even remember getting dressed. His clothes were unfamiliar.”
‘The City Just Lied’: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Massacre By Seyward Darby Highlight One hundred years later, journalists look back on the massacre of “Black Wall Street.”
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