Finding the Soundtrack to My Desert Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature In the ’90s, discovering the music of Friends of Dean Martinez helped Aaron Gilbreath stop running and appreciate life in his native Arizona.
Want Your Husband to Stay True? Kill a Hummingbird and Roll it in Oil and Honey By Krista Stevens Highlight People are capturing and killing hummingbirds for cockamamie love potions, and Mexico doesn’t seem to care.
The Red Caddy By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The first biography of Edward Abbey in a generation is closer to a memoir about friendship between two crusty desert rats.
Trump’s Wall Would Devastate Big Bend National Park By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Join Nick Paumgarten on a trip down the Rio Grande to understand what we’d lose if Trump’s border wall destroys this ecosystem.
Sometimes the Story Finds You: An Interview With Rachel Monroe By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
Life on the Oil Frontier By Longreads Feature What it was like living in one of America’s most patriarchal societies.
The Apology Tour By Jonny Auping Feature Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
One Consequence of Cannabis Legalization is Market Saturation By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Supply side economics is clogging the overstuffed bowl of Oregon’s booming cannabis market, and there are not enough lighters in Oregon to smoke all the product.
When Musical Theater Is Also a Kind of Therapy By Sari Botton Highlight For teens recovering from the Parkland shooting, performing in a production of “Spring Awakening” provides a measure of healing.
When the Amber Alert System Fails: An Abduction on Navajo Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Monroe, Jianan Qian, Rene Ebersole, Adi Robertson, and Kyle Chayka.
To Hug, or Not to Hug? By Emily Meg Weinstein Feature Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.
How to (Almost) Get Away With Murder By Krista Stevens Highlight No one twigged that whenever a member of the Harrison family died, it was always just before an important hearing in a bitter child custody battle.
England’s National Health Service Is Suffering Growing Pains By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.
One Coastal Scottish Village Learns the Real Meaning of Community By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Scottish village of Portpatrick saved its harbor and identity through a once-obscure ownership model, community shares.
How the NRA Uses Fear to Sell Guns in America By Krista Stevens Highlight Despite its fear-mongering tactics to sell guns, the future of the NRA — and gun manufacturers in general — is in question.
I Have a Half Mind to Donate My Brain to Science By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Dara Bramson’s grandmother decided to donate her brain to science, so Bramson visited the donation center to learn how iot all works.
The Ladies Who Were Famous for Wanting to Be Left Alone By Longreads Feature The Ladies of Llangollen fell in love, ran away together, and lived a scholarly life of “delicious seclusion” — secluded, that is, except for all the visitors.
The Changeling By Alexander Chee Feature Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners By Matt Giles Reading List This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.
The Amateur Sleuth Who Can’t Let One Case Rest By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.
The Nighthawks of the Giant By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Alex R. Jones starts grocery shopping late at night, and finds a new world opens up to him.
Protecting Your Writing Time In This Weird Time of Ours By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Poet Patricia Lockwood offers ideas on how to keep writing in the unstable, toxic, distracting times we live in.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Chelsea G. Summers, Linda Villarosa, Ben Smith, Chappell Ellison, and Louisa Thomas.
A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture By Minda Honey Feature Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.
You Can’t ‘Never Forget’ the Holocaust if You Haven’t Learned About It By Sari Botton Highlight A new study shows that knowledge about the Holocaust is dangerously at an all-time low.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Washing the Pillow Cases Every Day By Krista Stevens Highlight Chappell Ellison would have done anything to ease her brother’s suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Coachella, Alternativo By Gabriel Thompson Feature Durante el tiempo que pasó en el Valle de Coachella, California, el periodista Gabriel Thompson exploró cómo las comunidades latinas de la región se han adaptado a una vida de miedos e incertidumbre durante la administración de Trump.
Coachella, Underground By Gabriel Thompson Feature Spending time in California’s Coachella Valley, journalist Gabriel Thompson explores how the region’s Latino communities have adjusted to a life of fear and uncertainty under a Trump administration.
Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure By Larry Ruhl Feature A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.
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