The Geography Closest In By Longreads Feature In her new book, Miranda Ward explores the unique place of almost-motherhood — an uncertain landscape characterized by waiting, wanting, hoping, and not-knowing.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Caitlin L. Chandler, Kelan Lyons, Daniel Loedel, John Colapinto, and Shay Castle.
I Will Always Love You: A Dolly Parton Reading List By Alison Fishburn Reading List Happy birthday, Dolly Parton! Here are seven longreads about the American singer-songwriter.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Timothy Snyder, Austin Carr, James Murdock, Myriam Lahouari, and Brian Hiatt.
What Happened to Cruise Ship Workers Once the Passengers Were Gone? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, cruise companies “went to great lengths to repatriate vacationers.” But for crew members, it was a different story.
‘Almost Home’: On Place, Legacy, Growing Up in Atlanta, and Symbols of White Supremacy By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight An essay on growing up in the South, legacy, and a place rooted in white supremacy.
The Music of the Cave By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Though the team didn’t find the metal library, Armstrong put the adventure ‘up there with the moon landing.'”
The Case of the Disappearing Bucatini By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Having trouble finding bucatini? You are not alone.
Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Greg Jaffe, Phillip Picardi, Amy Yee, and Paul Brown.
Longreads Best of 2020: Essays By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature A small sampling of standout essays published this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Science and Nature By Carolyn Wells Feature Our top picks in science and nature stories for 2020.
Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19 By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mosi Secret, David Farrier, Ferris Jabr, Blake Butler, and Eoghan Walsh.
Loving Molly, and Mourning Her: A Husband’s Extraordinary Essay By Seyward Darby Highlight Blake Butler writes movingly about his late wife, poet Molly Brodak.
On Trees as Social Creatures and Fungi as the ‘Fabric of the Forest’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Trees were previously seen as individual and solitary organisms. But the research of Suzanne Simard shows otherwise.
The Alarmist: Is One of the Pandemic’s Loudest Scientific Voices Helping or Hurting Public Health? By Seyward Darby Highlight Meet Eric Feigl-Ding, the town crier of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trapped in Limbo Down Under By Seyward Darby Highlight In Australia, some 30,000 people live in a state of legal uncertainty crafted by politicians.
Longreads Best of 2020: Crime Reporting By Carolyn Wells Feature Our top picks in Crime Reporting for 2020.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Tim Alberta, Jane C. Hu, Katy Kelleher, Jimmy Thomson, and David Marchese.
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2020 By Krista Stevens Feature The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
Motherhood on the Line By Alice Driver Feature Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Nick Roberts and Rosa Amanda Tuirán, Carroll Bogert and Lynnell Hancock, Kiese Makeba Laymon, Alicia Kennedy, and Kitty Kelley.
‘Anyone Can Walk in the Woods, But Who Truly Knows Them?’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Tristan McConnell writes about the forests of Mount Kenya, and the people there with a deep understanding of the land and the trees.
The Secret Group Trying to Topple North Korea’s Regime By Seyward Darby Highlight Has the U.S. government already betrayed the activists seeking regime change in North Korea?
‘Transforming Craft Into An Act of Protest’: Embroidery In Response to Femicide in Mexico By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight An embroidery collective in Mexico sews the stories of slain women.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sarah Zhang, Jameson Rich, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Tristan McConnell, and Merritt Mecham.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Melissa del Bosque, Marta Martinez, Kiese Laymon, Jill Damatac, and Nehmat Kaur.
