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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Gell, Donovan X. Ramsey, Hannah L. Drake, E. Alex Jung, and Lina Mounzer.
‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.
I Don’t Wear Pink By Carolyn Wells Highlight “I believe in reincarnation,” my 4-year-old announced, confidently. “And when I come back, I’m going to be a boy, and my name will be Shane.”
Smoking: A Legal Weed Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List The economy, the culture, and the promise of cannabis.
She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids By Kathryn Joyce Feature How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Greg Jaffe, Justine van der Leun, Diana Moskovitz, Katy Vine, and Brian VanHooker.
Down the Rabbit Hole: A Psychedelic Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List The science, the strangeness, the promise, of psychedelic journeys.
The Grieving Landscape By Longreads Feature Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mitchell S. Jackson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Melissa Fay Greene, Luke Harding, and Irina Dumitrescu.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lucas Waldron, Nadia Sussman, Thalia Beaty, and Ryan Gabrielson, as well as Jamil Smith, Cynthia Tucker, Venkatesh Rao, and Sirin Kale.
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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wesley Lowery, Sarah Bellamy, Shawn Yuan, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and Gabrielle Bellot.
The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.
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.
Trading Spaces By Cheryl Jarvis Feature Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.
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 Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ibram X. Kendi, Wesley Morris, James Baldwin, Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason, and Josina Guess.
