Maybe We’ll Register Your Marriage After You Walk the Bomb-Sniffing Dog By Krista Stevens Highlight All they really wanted was to live happily ever after.
How Russia Has Been Spying in Plain Sight in San Francisco By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What was going on at Russia’s consulate in San Francisco?
Is Estonia Leading the Way to the Future Digital World? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Estonia’s ultimate goal in digitizing its society has less to do with automation than it does with embracing the transient nature of labor in the European marketplace.
Fashion For Everyone, Where “Everyone” Means “Thin People” By Michelle Weber Highlight Fat ladies are bad optics.
Bringing Home the Bodies: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet By Krista Stevens Highlight How 12 sherpas recovered two bodies from the 27,000-foot mark of Mount Everest.
An Elegy for Bette Howland, a Writer Who Was Nearly Forgotten By A. N. Devers Commentary On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.
Where It’s Always Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas By Michelle Weber Highlight Marissa Weiss explores life in Alaska: The cold, the dark, the ice, the 3,000 miles between her and her parents in Maryland.
No Más Fantasía By Chris Outcalt Feature What happens when you’re sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, then released 19 years later and sent to a place that’s supposed to feel like home?
In Praise of Cowardice By Emily Meg Weinstein Feature Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
This Is How a Woman Is Erased From Her Job By A. N. Devers Feature After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
Server, Busser, Manager, Spy: Inside the High-Stakes World of Restaurant Oppo Research By Ben Huberman Highlight When a famous critic enters a restaurant, they become the most scrutinized item on the menu.
Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting on Sexual Misconduct By Mike Dang Commentary Investigations into sexual misconduct perpetrated by powerful men across several industries had the biggest impact in 2017.
Treating Drug Epidemics Requires More Than Changes in Law By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Portugal combats its drug epidemic with decriminalization, social services, and new ways of thinking.
Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now By Longreads Feature Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
A Pact Between You, God, and the Dance Floor By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Dancing the nights away with bar and bat mitzvah professionals known as “party motivators.”
Restoring Neon City By Krista Stevens Highlight On the artists who labor to keep Austin weird and glowing brightly.
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy By Melissa Chadburn Feature Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
The Fabric of History By Michelle Weber Highlight Kirsten Tranter is cleaning out her closet. But how does the Marie Kondo method work for a “depressive personality…for whom joy is often an elusive feeling”?
Finding My Identity By the Light of My Mother’s Menorah By Santi Elijah Holley Feature The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.
The Soundtrack to Healing on the Road to Recovery By Krista Stevens Highlight How a family of five learned how to be a family of four.
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Longreads Reading List Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Megan Twohey, Jodi Kantor, Susan Dominus, Jim Rutenberg, and Steve Eder; Eliana Dockterman, Stephanie Zarachek, and Haley Sweetland Edwards; John Woodrow Cox; Nadim Roberts; and Phil Klay.
A (Tempered) Victory for the Silence-Breakers By Sari Botton Highlight Time magazine chooses as its Person of the Year those who’ve spoken up against sexual predators — and as runner-up, a sexual predator.
How We Got There from Here By Anna Armstrong Feature Anna Armstrong recalls a road trip to escape her grief-stricken home — dragging her 13-year-old brother to see R.E.M.
The Nearly Impossible Journey of a Long-Term Survivor By Krista Stevens Highlight All they really wanted was to avoid getting into trouble for stealing a package of cigarettes.
Portland, Oregon, Where the Law Protects Car Thieves Instead of Peoples’ Cars By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Thanks to wacky laws, Portland, Oregon has the third highest car theft rate in America.
Maybe Your House Can Be “Most Congenial” By Michelle Weber Highlight Richard Wallace considers his chances (not great) at being memorialized by a blue English Heritage plaque.
Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace By Josh Roiland Feature Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
Climate Change and Social Disorder in Central Africa By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight As climate change dries Central Africa’s massive Lake Chad, extremists and militant governments distrupt the lives of the tribes who once made their life here.
Buying Everything You Need at the Dollar Store By Catherine Cusick Highlight You just can’t need greens. Or fruit. Or a higher net income.
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