An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence By Longreads Feature As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.
The Wind Sometimes Feels in Error By Luke O'Neil Feature Each year the balloon strained and strained against its cords.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Brent Cunningham, CJ Hauser, Carla Bruce-Eddings, Caroline Rothstein, and Lisa Grossman.
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway By Eliza Margarita Bates Feature A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
How Do You Move Past a Dad? By Sara Fredman Feature Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.
The Symbiotics of Harvesting Eider Down By Krista Stevens Highlight “There is an irresistible simplicity to the relationship between the harvesters and the eiders.”
Companion Fair? By Krista Stevens Highlight “That’s what Dad’s AAirpass and ultra-elite flying status yielded for him: lifelong bonds.”
Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax By Lisa A. Phillips Feature When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.
Reading Lessons By Irina Dumitrescu Feature You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
Understanding Craig Stecyk By Joe Donnelly Feature Stecyk defined Southern California’s subversive, skateboard aesthetic and changed art and culture in the process, but that doesn’t mean he wants to talk about it.
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.”
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