One of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s ‘Unsalvageables,’ 30 Years Later By Krista Stevens Highlight “Even children with treatable issues—perhaps they were cross-eyed or anemic, or had a cleft lip—were classified as ‘unsalvageable.'”
How To Make $1000 PER DAY From ANYWHERE In The World!!! Totally Not Shady! By Carolyn Wells Highlight Selling products you never see to people you never meet — the world of dropshipping.
John Lewis: ‘Get into Good Trouble’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “We are going to turn America around.”
Godspeed Your Journey to the Great PlayPlace In the Sky By Michelle Weber Highlight “Once the love-language of a brand to its audience, the place of a modern mascot has never been less sure-footed.”
If You Love the Music of the Carter Family, Thank Leslie Riddle By Michelle Weber Highlight “First, you exclude black people from the festivals. Then write them out by not recording them. And pretty soon, ‘you have this manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.'”
Palliative Brownies By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grew up in the grip of the epidemic, maturing as people I adored as surrogate aunties and uncles fell ill and vanished from our lives.”
Hearing Voices By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Even after he quit smoking marijuana, one young college student couldn’t escape the auditory hallucinations that he’d first experienced during heavy use.
Four Stories from Wuhan By Krista Stevens Highlight “From the moment my mother died, I haven’t stopped thinking about how I could have saved her.”
COVID-19 and the Fight for Justice By Krista Stevens Highlight “And yet, even though this health crisis reflects our nation’s political, social, and civic infrastructure, this plague has no consideration for morality. “
Rout the Racism From Your Very Bones By Michelle Weber Highlight “What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”
The PTSD of Everyday Life By Michelle Weber Highlight The mental and physical toll of life in a white supremacist state is unavoidable for BIPOC, even if it manifests differently for different people.
Life in the Chelsea Hotel During Pandemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The remaining residents face isolation, and the challenges of preserving their history while enduring the present.
India’s Journalistic Source of Narrative Nonfiction By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The dangers of journalists speaking the truth will not slow this Indian magazine down.
The Spectacular Explosion of Cannabis’ Ambitious Startup MedMen By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight This is how part of cannabis industry came down from its high.
Japan’s Lonely Cherry Blossoms By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Millions of people turn out to see Japan’s famous sakura blossoms. This year, Covid-19 kept the usual crowds at home, though the blossom makes a fitting metaphor for evanescence.
Jericho Brown: ‘Write into the Deep Dark Wreck’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.”
How Travel Writing May Look After the Pandemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Although people will always travel and write about their experiences, it remains unclear how the travel writing form will look after Covid-19.
How Covid Is Decimating British Music Journalism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What will England be like with fewer music magazines?
Risking Your Life For a Selfie By Carolyn Wells Highlight “With the right hashtag, anyone can view thousands of potential destinations — and choose which to visit based on aesthetics alone.”
Rosanne Cash: Living Between the Notes On Stage By Krista Stevens Highlight “It turns out that when I’m performing, I have only half the available light; the audience has the other half.”
Instacart: Shop ‘Til You Drop By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“People are disposable to them,” Rachel says. “They don’t care.”’
Among the Last in An Iron Lung By Krista Stevens Highlight “He likes talking about polio and the lung, and about his life, because what terrifies him…is that the world will forget what polio was like, and what he achieved in spite of it.”
Caring Without Touching By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Everything about the way we work has been transformed.” Gavin Francis talks about life as a Scottish doctor during COVID-19.
Brené Brown: ‘I think we’re looking for each other.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “In a country where nobody can agree on much, we seem to agree on Brené Brown.”
Yes, The US Government Spies on US Journalists By Krista Stevens Highlight “If we do not know what our government is doing, we cannot hold it accountable. If we do know, our enemies know too. That can be dangerous.”
What Happens When You Go Offline By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Information Age is also the age of information overload. Here’s what one person learned about the human brain after cleansing himself of screens.
The Lonely World of Family Life By Carolyn Wells Highlight “The boundaries between the worlds of families and everyone else in society seem to be getting more and more entrenched, and transgressing them is frowned upon.”
The ‘Accidental Hero’ Who Saved the Internet from WannaCry By Krista Stevens Highlight “That’s when her son came upstairs and told her, a little uncertainly, that he seemed to have stopped the worst malware attack the world had ever seen.”
Five Longreads Stories Selected for 2020 Editions of the ‘Best American’ Series By Sari Botton Highlight Congratulations to Matthew Salesses, Tim Requarth, Mojgan Ghazirad, Shanna B. Tiayon, Joe Fassler, and The Counter, our partner in co-publishing Fassler’s piece.
Sharing Food to Feed A Family’s Soul By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Food feeds the body, but cooking for other people feeds human connections.
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