Sight and Insight By Liane Kupferberg Carter Feature After a childhood filled with intrusive medical interventions for misaligned eyes, Liane Kupferberg Carter wrestles with learning to see herself and others clearly.
When It’s Time to Tell By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.
House of the Century By Daisy Alioto Feature Daisy Alioto reconsiders the nature of architecture while researching window alarms.
Shelved: Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk By Tom Maxwell Feature The posthumous Buckley industry began with this problematic album, proof that the people who control a musician’s estate don’t always have his music in mind.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Exhilarating, Emotionally Intelligent Pop Music By rachelvoronacote Feature Although music often involves emotional expression, pop star Carly Rae Jepsen has built a career and a persona out of big, unguarded emotions, a range that could be called “too muchness,” which is just right for some of us.
Postcard from the (Literal) Edge By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her recovery memoir, Erin Khar recalls the depths of her self-destruction as a heroin addict.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Greg Miller, Melissa del Bosque, Katherine Rosman, Laura Marsh, and Alexander Huls.
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
Searching For Mackie By Annie Hylton Feature Seven years ago, a young woman from Tache, British Columbia, went out for the evening and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her, and they deserve answers.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from David Enrich, Megan Stielstra, Natalie Weiner, Mark Leviton and Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Amanda Fortini.
The Danger of Befriending Celebrities By Michael Musto Feature Once upon a time, nightlife journalist Michael Musto didn’t set the strongest boundaries with the boldfaced names he covered.
“The Ugliness of Greatness”: A Kobe Bryant Reading List By Matt Giles Reading List It has been a dozen days since the shocking death of the Los Angeles Lakers star. How do we talk about Kobe and his legacy on and off the court?
The Poke Paradox By Adam Skolnick Feature Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.
The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona By Longreads Feature To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.
All Mom’s Friends By Svetlana Kitto Feature Svetlana Kitto recalls her 1980s childhood in Hollywood during the early years of the AIDS crisis.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wendy C. Ortiz, Mary South, Jeremiah Moss, Nora Caplan-Bricker, and Samanth Subramanian.
Be a Good Sport By Soraya Roberts Feature Competitive sports can mean professional and financial success — if they don’t compromise your mental health first. ‘Cheer’ and ‘Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez’ show how athletics can hurt as much as they can heal.
Remembering the Things That Remain By Amos Barshad Feature A Polish artist invites a journalist to dig into disturbing remnants from the Holocaust that Poland would rather keep buried.
Can Japan Break Its Addiction to Disposable Packaging? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One of the most technologically advanced countries in the world pays a high ecological price for its many culinary conveniences.
At Mrs. Balbir’s By Jillian Dunham Feature Jillian Dunham traveled thousands of miles from home to get away from her grief. It found her anyway, in a stranger’s Bangkok apartment.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Michael Barajas, Evan Ratliff, Andrew Mckirdy, Raffi Khatchadourian, and Agnes Callard.
The Early Years of Elif Batuman’s Interest in Russian Authors By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How a college student’s scholarly investigation into whether Tolstoy was murdered led to her first book, about the people obsessed with Russian literature.
Inking Against Invisibility By Talia Hibbert Feature In the face of chronic pain, invisible illness, and medical discrimination, Talia Hibbert turned to tatoos to reclaim ownership of her body.
Eating To Save My Mind By Claire Fitzsimmons Feature Can diet determine the future of your mental health? Claire Fitzsimmons attempts to find out through a month of Whole30.
Menace Too Society By Soraya Roberts Feature Cancel culture suggests we can change the world from the outside in, but the misogyny and racism are coming from inside the house.
China’s Communist Government Has a Strong Hold on Chinese Corporations By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight China’s largest e-commerce company is not only changing the way people in China shop, but how they think about commerce and each other in a Communist country.
In Defense of Boris the Russki By Ayşegül Savaş Feature Ayşegül Savaş calls into question a kind of racism in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, and laments the liberal reluctance to rebuke discrimination outright, regardless of its targets.
In Pocahontas County, Deep Divisions and a Gruesome Discovery By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from ‘The Third Rainbow Girl,’ Emma Copley Eisenberg interrogates various social conditions that might have contributed to a mysterious double murder in West Virginia in 1980.
Leadership Academy By Victor Wei Ke Yang Feature Victor Yang considers how his time as an immigrant rights organizer helped him understand his mother, and the guilt and obligation he carries from their relationship.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Bazelon, Alex Ronan, Justine Harman, Emily Harnett, and Sam Leith.
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