The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter Eisler, Linda So, Jason Szep, Grant Smith, Ned Parker, and Jaed Coffin, Sarah Gilman, Katy Kelleher, and Irris Makler.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Smiley, Reid Forgrave, Susan Casey, Michael Rosenberg, and Lucy Jones.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mike Giglio, Omar Mouallem, Katherine Laidlaw, Dave Daley, and Tim Greiving.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Barton Gellman, Latria Graham, Teju Cole, Samuel Ashworth, and Shanna Baker.
The Powerful Decide By Longreads Feature What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court By Gabriel Thompson Feature Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Greg Jaffe, Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques, Jeremy Lybarger, and Cat Cardenas and Christian Wallace.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Adam Serwer, Alexandra Marvar, Timothy Snyder, Gaby Del Valle, and Sulaiman Addonia.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rukmini Callimachi, Annie Waldman and Joshua Kaplan, Jesmyn Ward, Hillery Stone, and Alice Driver.
Shelved: Pink Floyd’s Household Objects By Tom Maxwell Feature On Syd Barrett’s time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.
‘It’s An iPad, Not An usPad’: Douglas Rushkoff on Digital Isolation By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “There’s no Dropbox plan that will let us upload body and soul to the cloud. We are still here on the ground, with the same people and on the same planet we are being encouraged to leave behind.”
The Seattle Police Shooting of Native Woodcarver John T. Williams, 10 Years Later By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “I don’t think you can talk about police accountability in our region without also talking about the murder of John T. Williams.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Katie Engelhart, Katy Vine, Zach Baron, and Colin Dickey.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Seema Jilani, Katy Kelleher, Carina del Valle Schorske, Martin Padgett, and Ben Lindbergh.
How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries By Irina Dumitrescu Feature A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral By Yxta Maya Murray Feature In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Tana Ganeva, Garrett M. Graff, Janelle Monáe, Ellen Cushing, and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder.
“Do You Get Shit for Your Name?” By Osama Shehzad Feature When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Barack Obama, Andrea Pitzer, Hannah Dreier, Ismail Muhammad, Niela Orr, Hanif Abdurraqib, Danielle A. Jackson, and Cassie Owens, and Karolina Waclawiak.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Michele Harper, Laura Paskus, Samiya Bashir, and Raven Leilani.
Marmalade: A Very British Obsession By Olivia Potts Feature Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
‘Their Bodies Are Not Considered Their Own’: White Privilege in the Emergency Room By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight It’s against the law to examine someone without their consent — but one ER doctor’s colleagues do it anyway.
A Genre of Myths: A Jazz Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List Created in New Orleans and played around the world, the music we call jazz is filled with genius, legend, and tragedy.
‘Who’s Going to Take Care of Me?’: When the Coronavirus Takes Both Parents By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In the wake of their parents’ deaths, three siblings struggle to get through the day-to-day.
The Promised Land By Alice Driver Feature A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Patricia Lockwood, Rachel E. Gross, and Theresa Okokon.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets By Katy Kelleher Feature Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?
Removing Beethoven’s Wig: A Classical Music Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List Classical music is more than dead Europeans in wigs, starched collars, and stuffy concert halls. What classical music is, where it’s going, and what it still can be.
