The Billionaire Philanthropist By Jacob Silverman Feature It’s American tradition for CEOs to stockpile their wealth, avoid taxes, and participate in the theater of giving. Will Jeff Bezos make it scale?
Giving Tex-Mex Its Due By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why does Tex-Mex get such a bad rap when it’s a legitimate culinary tradition predating Texas statehood?
The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition By Longreads Feature Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lili Loofbourow, Rachel Monroe, Benjamin Weiser, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Megan Greenwell.
The Man in the Mirror By Alison Kinney Feature In the aftermath of rape, Alison Kinney discovers that a new lover who helps you to heal can just as easily betray you.
Emotional Preparedness for a Dying Planet By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?
Looking Back On the Last Housing Bubble From the Precipice of the Next One By Sari Botton Highlight A decade later, some homeowners still haven’t recovered from the mortgage crisis of 2008.
A Storyteller, Unbecoming By Namrata Poddar Feature On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.
The Baller Women of the Billiards Tour By Krista Stevens Highlight Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.
Dorm Living for Adults By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The new Common co-living company isn’t as communal is it pretends.
The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding By Susan Fekete Feature Mom would make excuses about not having cleaned the house. I knew they were lies. I knew her house was full.
One Georgia Farmer’s Experiment in Racial Equality By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Minister Clarence Jordan founded Koinonia Farm in 1942 to be, in his words, a “demonstration plot for the kingdom of God.” Can it endure in our racially charged modern climate?
The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV By Longreads Feature An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.
Homeward Bound: Allegedly a Sea of Sexual Harassment in the Field of Science By Krista Stevens Highlight A program to encourage women to take leadership positions in the field of science has sailed into the rough seas of the #metoo movement.
It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.
Bernadette Peters Is Not a Child By Catherine Cusick Highlight Even Bernadette Peters, as fearless and as formidable as ever, has been described for decades as cute and naïve.
Doomed in Nashville By Monica Drake Feature On a whirlwind book tour, Monica Drake fights to resist the pull of an emotional — and physical — abyss.
How Jerry and Marge Gamed the Lottery By Krista Stevens Highlight All they did was bet big. And they won, time and again.
It Depends on What the Meaning of ‘Consent’ Is By Sari Botton Highlight Monica Lewinsky reframes her understanding of sexual consent as it applied to her relationship with Bill Clinton through the lens of the #MeToo moment.
To Be a Lexicographer Is to Surrender to Folly By Ben Huberman Highlight On the never-ending, unattainable quest to create the perfect English dictionary.
“My Sparkling Brain”: Dealing with Multiple Sclerosis at Age 27 By Krista Stevens Highlight Meredith White finds a way to cope with the weight of knowing she has MS.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jason Fagone, Joe Zadeh, Victoria Myers, Andrew Dickson, and Steve Almond.
The Invisible Lives of Young Women With Chronic Illnesses By Jessica Gross Feature Michele Lent Hirsch on the challenges young women with serious health issues face while navigating their relationships, careers, and own sense of who they are.
How to Write a Memoir While Grieving By Nicole Chung Feature Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.
How Much Would You Endure to Flee Persecution? By Krista Stevens Highlight Now that Europe welcomes migrants no longer, asylum seekers are making nearly impossible journeys through South America to the United States.
Casting Out Satan and Your Religious Upbringing By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How one woman struggled to make sense of the exorcisms she witnessed as a child.
Guantánamo, Forever By Longreads Feature After nearly a decade, Gitmo detainee Haroon Gul believed he had a chance at freedom. Then came President Trump.
Trying to Understand YouTube Success By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How a successful YouTube celebrity barely leaves the house.
Kara Walker’s Subtlety By Longreads Feature In the summer of 2014, Kara Walker’s sphinx posed a riddle about women, sweetness, and power.
Asking For It By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Surviving sexual assualt in a world content to let women disappear.
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