A Journalist Takes Stock of His Formative Years By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An experienced reporter looks back at the hard lessons he learned reporting from Eastern Europe during a politically tumultuous time.
Women and the War on Wrinkles By Krista Stevens Highlight As women age, they lose their “pretty privilege.” As men age, they just get more powerful. Chelsea G. Summers examines the imbalance.
Welcome to the New Transnational Paradigm By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove By Jonny Auping Feature “If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
As Innocuous as Plant No. 1 By Aaron Gilbreath Feature William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine By Longreads Feature In 1945, Les Temps modernes shocked the world with its pessimism and grim determination, and catapulted its founders into intellectual superstardom.
Rules for Departure By Rachel Z. Arndt Feature While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Rachel Z. Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break.
Junot Diaz on The Legacy of Childhood Trauma By Krista Stevens Highlight Junot Diaz suffered for years after being raped by a trusted adult at age 8.
How Baltimore Police Abused Their Power By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force were celebrated for getting firearms off the street, until detectives discovered they were also robbing criminals of guns, drugs and money.
A Certain Kind of Mammal By Meaghan O'Connell Feature Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
Our Bodies, Our Selves By Sari Botton Highlight Roxane Gay tapped 24 writers to address what it’s like to live in an “unruly” body today.
Leslie Jamison Fesses Up By Krista Stevens Highlight Leslie Jamison reveals the role lying has played in her life.
“99 Luftballons” and the Grim Fairy Tales of ’80s West Germany By Ben Huberman Highlight On storytelling in the shadow of Chernobyl, U.S. military planes, and not-so-distant German history.
A Clarifying Dose of Reality (TV) By Valentina Valentini Feature A try-out for American Idol put Valentina Valentini permanently off fame-seeking.
Where Have You Hidden the Cholera? By Longreads Feature In Mozambique and around the world — and throughout history — cholera outbreaks have caused riots. Why? And what does it have to do with bicycles?
Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine By Anne Thériault Feature Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.
The Resegregation of Charlotte’s Public Schools By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Charlotte, North Carolina, once embraced public school integration, but schools have become highly segregated again.
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me By Steve Almond Feature Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the ‘bad stories’ he believes delivered our country to the Trump era.
The Writers’ Roundtable: Fiction vs. Nonfiction By Eva Holland Feature A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Kathleen McGrory, Bryan Curtis, Anna Merlan, and Amalia Illgner.
The Religion No One Talks About: My Search For Answers in an Old Caribbean Faith By Sarah Betancourt Feature Writer Sarah Betancourt explores her connections to Espiritismo and Santeria.
“We All Had the Same Acid Flashback at the Same Time”: The New American Cuisine By Longreads Feature How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
The Amateur Investigators of the American West By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When 66-year-old Bill Ewasko got lost near Joshua Tree National Park, the case spawned a network of amateur investigators obsessed with finding him.
Who Does She Think She Is? By Laurie Penny Feature The internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.
Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar By David Fettling Feature Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.
California Governor Jerry Brown Is Retiring By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After 40 years of public service, California Governor Jerry Brown is retiring. This is the story of his last days.
The Death Row Book Club By Aaron Gilbreath Feature When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.
You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent By Rebecca Schuman Feature A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
The Year of the Jumpsuit By Sari Botton Highlight A political art project calls for everyone to wear nondescript coveralls.
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