White Men On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown By Katie Kosma Highlight The ruling minority of white men are getting nervous about impending destabilization of their power.
Letters from Trenton By Thomas Swick Feature While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
Waiting for Mental Health Care By Catherine Cusick Highlight Patients do ask for help with their mental health. And then they wait.
Queens of Infamy: Joanna of Naples By Anne Thériault Feature If you thought four (mostly) crappy husbands, vengeful Hungarian cousins, and the Black Death could cramp this queen’s style, think again.
Forced to Perform As Aretha Franklin By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How soul singer Mary Jane Jones was forced to perform as Aretha Franklin before she took control of her life and career.
How to Be Single By Shelly Oria Feature Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.
How Southern Cities Are Joining the Knowledge Economy By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Greenville, South Carolina has revitalized its city center by incubating start-ups. Can other Southern cities do the same?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from John Lanchester, Bethany Barnes, Stephen Kearse, Warren Ellis, and Soraya Roberts.
El camino al asilo By Alice Driver Feature Las mujeres trans migran para escapar de la violencia y mantenerse con vida. Alice Driver acompañó a una de estas mujeres en su viaje.
The Road to Asylum By Alice Driver Feature Trans women migrate to escape violence and stay alive. Alice Driver accompanied one of these women on her journey.
The Section 8 Cannabis Eviction Problem By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Although many states legally allow the use of medical marijuana, federal law still prohibits its possession in federally subsidized housing, so many residents live in fear of eviction.
Making Peace with Selective Reduction By Amber Leventry Feature When risks arise in her partner’s pregnancy with triplets, Amber Leventry discovers that letting go of one life doesn’t have to mean losing faith, or love.
Here Be Tigers By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight If thousands of Australians claim to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, then did it really go extinct in 1936?
There Are Few Second Chances for Immigrants Who Commit Crimes By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How America punishes immigrant criminals multiple times for the same crime and continues traumatizing them.
The Inward Empire By christiandonlan Feature A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.
Seeing the Modern World In the Disposable Plastic Straw By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How our planet came to be filled with more disposable plastic straws than most of us will ever need.
The Daughter as Detective By Alice Bolin Feature A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
The Bungled Bank Robbery That Ended in a Landmark Legal Ruling By Longreads Feature In 1958, John Leo Brady got his lover pregnant and decided to stick up a bank to fund a new life. It ended with a murder, a Supreme Court case, and the formation of the Brady rule.
La Otra By Longreads Feature When a woman and her daughter moved in next door, Jaquira Díaz found her world was suddenly turned upside down.
Author Carmen Maria Machado on the Next Phase of #MeToo By Danielle Jackson Highlight Carmen Maria Machado discusses the nuances of “benevolent sexism,” who gets to define the #MeToo movement, and how it should progress.
It’s Time for Hooters to GTFO By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight My recommendation: a complete rebrand, where all Hooters restaurants are converted into owl sanctuaries.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Donna Minkowitz, Stephen Rodrick, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Nadia Berenstein, and Shanna Baker.
Johnny Depp: We Are Concerned By Krista Stevens Highlight Johnny Depp’s out of cash and he really has no idea why.
Twenty-five Years After Breaking Brandon Teena’s Story: An Apology By Katie Kosma Highlight Journalist Donna Minkowitz realizes 25 years later she was victim to her own internalized homophobia and ignorance on trans issues when she broke the story of Brandon Teena, subject of Boys Don’t Cry.
How To Build An Intellectual By Hedia Anvar Feature For one young immigrant, growing up Iranian in New York City meant raising herself.
Haruki Murakami Strolls Through His Childhood Home After the Hanshin Earthquake By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When Haruki Murakami walked the long distance between his childhood home outside Kobe and the city center, he found a city changed by the great Kobe earthquake, and the constant spector of violence.
Staten Island Wilderness, Going, Going, Gone? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One of the last pieces of wilderness on Staten Island might get bulldozed.
Meet Spitty, the Whippet Who Holds Five World Records By Krista Stevens Highlight “Science has proven the impossibility of the human brain to register self-pity, or maunder on about the generally sorry state of things, while in the presence of canine bellyflops.”
Mining Britain’s Recent Past to Save Our Future By Katie Kosma Highlight If the historically coal-reliant United Kingdom can come off the black stuff, can the United States?
The Urban Crisis of Affluence By Catherine Cusick Highlight An investment property is not a home. Neither are cities where most people can’t afford to live.
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