The Dead End on My Record Shelf By Longreads Feature I believed that there was no music existing in the world with an unbroken connection to its original context. I was wrong.
There’s No Discrimination in Baseball! By Katie Kosma Highlight Historically pushed toward softball, Baseball for All keeps young girls in the game.
Do You Want to Know a Secret: The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney By Krista Stevens Highlight “Imagine realizing one day that you’re a Beatle. Think about how you might decide to handle that for the next 50, 60, 70 years.”
A Trip to Tolstoy Farm By Jordan Michael Smith Feature Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.
Florida, White Privilege, and Racism By Krista Stevens Highlight My origin story—as a son, and later a father and a husband; as a citizen, a racist— has always begun in a crumpled car at the side of the highway. May 30, 1982.
The Columbine Generation Isn’t Going to Take it Anymore By Krista Stevens Highlight The Parkland survivors are teaming up with urban youth dedicated to ending gun violence, united by Dr. Martin Luther King’s six principles of nonviolence.
Weighing the Costs — and Occasional Benefits — of Ethnic Ambiguity By Aram Mrjoian Feature Aram Mrjoian reflects on his experiences of being part Armenian in America.
J.R.’s Jook and the Authenticity Mirage By Longreads Feature When a young white musician gets invited to a house-party, the musicians he plays with show him a slice of blues culture many people assumed had died.
SuperShe Island: Where Finding Your Inner Light is Priceless By Krista Stevens Highlight Apparently there is no shortage of women who want to apply to pay $5000 to find their inner light.
The Deep, Confounding Joys of Music By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Even the greatest philosophical minds can’t figure out why music gives us such pleasure, only that music does.
Naomi Osaka Deserves to Have Her Moment By Mike Dang Commentary Much is being written about the contentious U.S. Open women’s final match, but this moment belongs to Naomi Osaka.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lyz Lenz, Chris Sweeney, Megan Zahneis and Jack Stripling, Davey Alba, and Christopher Borrelli.
To Post, or Not to Post? By Eloghosa Osunde Feature Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.
Stripped: The Search for Human Rights in US Women’s Prisons By Adam Skolnick Feature The US prison system is broken. It sucks up billions of dollars each year and destroys lives. Could a Thai princess and an accidental criminal justice reform activist in the Pacific Northwest have the answers?
Inside the Belly of the Beast: How the Burmese Python is Decimating Bird and Small Mammal Populations in Florida By Krista Stevens Highlight If you live in Florida, you better keep tabs on your cat, lest it fall prey to the invasive, 18-ft long Burmese python hiding under your bushes.
Above It All: How the Court Got So Supreme By Longreads Feature Secrecy and speechifying, collegiality and hierarchy, exceptionalism and opulence on the Supreme Court.
Having the Wrong Conversations about Hate Activity By Longreads Feature How a terrified mother tried — and failed — to be a walking-talking public service announcement.
A Long, Lasting Influence on Educational Equity By Anna Katherine Clemmons Feature As the Philadelphia Eagles start the 2018-19 NFL season, defensive end Chris Long is also committed to making wins off the field by creating educational equity for students in the United States.
A Cover That Could Launch a Million Retweets By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What does a magazine cover mean in the digital age?
Vanishing Twins By Leah Dieterich Feature After years of bonding closely with other people, one woman finally goes searching for herself.
The Africans Who Suffer in a Deportation Purgatory By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are experiencing increasing deportations, though these deportees receive less media attention than deportees from Mexico and Central America.
Losers’ Lunch By Ben Rothenberg Feature Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Christine Kenneally, Desiree Stennett and Lisa Rowan, Andrea Long Chu, Victoria Blanco, and David Kushner.
Pathologizing Black Communities: Chicago Violence Receives the Wrong Attention By Katie Kosma Highlight Homicide rates in Chicago’s black communities receive a disproportionate amount of media attention in an ongoing tendency to sensationalize and pathologize their residents.
Lyrical Ladies, Writing Women, and the Legend of Lauryn Hill By Michael Gonzales Feature Joan Morgan’s “She Begat This” looks back at how Lauryn Hill crashed through hip-hop’s glass ceiling, while our critic looks at how the author and a cadre of black women writers did the same for hip-hop music journalism.
Viagra: The Happiest of All Happy Accidents? By Krista Stevens Highlight How a happy accident has gone on to make men happy the world over.
Russian Malware Is Really Killin’ It Lately By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When Russia attacked Ukraine with sophicated malware in 2017, it caused over $10 billion dollars worth of damage and revealed the whole world’s vulnerabilities.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger Was the Newest Member of the Gym By Ben Huberman Highlight From his earliest days in California, Arnold was a polarizing, impossible-to-ignore figure.
Breast Implants, Beyond Real and Fake By Ben Huberman Highlight Nell Boeschenstein reflects on the culturally fraught discourse around post-mastectomy reconstruction.
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