The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, S. Margot Finn, Darcy Frey, and Logan Hill.
A Minor Figure By Longreads Feature While searching for photographs that depict black young women and girls living free in the second and third generations born after slavery, Saidiya Hartman finds a disturbing image.
When to Throw a Goodbye Party By Joy Notoma Feature Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Five: The Remnant By Leah Sottile Feature The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood
A Once and Future Beef By Will Meyer Feature Beef is a major culprit of the climate crisis, but if you want to consider beef’s future, then look to its past. The industry’s tactics have not changed as much as you might think.
American Green By Longreads Feature How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician By Leah Sottile Feature If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women By Ann Foster Feature How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Three: The Widow’s Tale By Leah Sottile Feature When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.
Whole 60 By Laura Lippman Feature The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
Shelved: Jimi Hendrix’s Black Gold Suite By Tom Maxwell Feature The genius guitarist’s autobiographical, multi-song fantasy album sat in his drummer’s apartment for twenty years. Now in the care of the Hendrix estate, will it ever see the light of day?
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Two: The Hunter and the Bomb By Leah Sottile Feature The story was that a radical man set off a bomb in the desert. But what about everything else that happened?
Can Coastal California Adapt to Climate Change? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rising sea levels and aggressive erosion could prove to be the greatest crisis modern Californians will ever face.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man By Leah Sottile Feature When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
The Big Sick By Soraya Roberts Feature Vomit culture keeps repeating on us because who doesn’t enjoy a good puke.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Gabriel Thompson, Tim Murphy, Deborah Netburn, Tove Danovich, and Sirin Kale.
The Cost of Reading By Ayşegül Savaş Feature Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.
Wimbledon: Where Women Wait By Ben Rothenberg Feature Women still aren’t treated equally at Wimbledon.
A Woman In Love Is a Woman Alone By Francesca Giacco Feature On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women.”
My Unsexual Revolution By Diane Shipley Feature Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what ‘normal’ is, anyway.
How To Embrace Professional Decline By Carolyn Wells Highlight As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?
Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents By Michael Washburn Feature In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.
Holding the Pain By Amye Archer Feature Amye Archer explores her own relationship with the shooting at Sandy Hook as she works with survivors to tell their stories.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ian Frisch, Niela Orr, Alison Fensterstock, Jill Lepore, and Austin Carr.
Exploring The Paris Underneath Paris By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Drawn to the culture of urban exploration, the author crawls through narrow tunnels under Paris so we don’t have to.
The Brazilian Healer and the Patron Saint of Impossible Causes By Leigh Hopkins Feature Leigh Hopkins faces the hidden truth about the world’s most famous spiritual surgeon and the irresistible desire to find ‘the cure.’
The Unstable Business of Higher Education By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why are so many small American colleges like Newbury closing?
Why Bugs Deserve Our Respect By Jessica Gross Feature Fruit flies helped us win six Nobel prizes in medicine. Architects have been inspired by termite hills. Ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains why bugs are so essential to the world we live in.
The Burdens We Carry By Amy Scheiner Feature Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.
