The Aftermarket for (Human) Spare Parts By Pam Mandel Highlight “What they are doing is profiting from the sale of humans.”
Cast by Chronic Illness Into a Limiting Role By Maris Kreizman Feature Maris Kreizman dreamed of attending performing arts camp, but she ended up homesick at diabetes camp instead.
Jeff Goldblum Prefers Pouring Orange Juice in His Cereal By Matt Giles Highlight The actor is a steadfast convert, but does that mean the actor is right?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mike Mariani, Emma Marris, Patrick Rosal, Susana Ferreira, and Scott Indrisek.
When a Mother and Daughter Reverse Roles By Marlene Adelstein Feature An obsession with an orphaned sea otter helps Marlene Adelstein process her grief over her Alzheimers-afflicted mom.
An Oregon Wolf, Profiled By Ben Huberman Highlight A fateful encounter between Oregon’s mightiest wolf and the scientist who would track him for the next six years.
Can Portland’s River Cleanup Correct Environmental Injustice? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Willamette River, a superfund site, was once Portland’s lifeblood. A massive cleanup project could restore it for the communities of color that had long relied on it for food, work, and leisure.
The Strange Art World of Craigslist By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The artists who use Craigslist to find subjects and ideas have found a willing group of participants unfazed by unusual encounters.
The He’s-Got-to-Be-the-Help-Because-He’s-Brown Mistake By Sari Botton Highlight Patrick Rosal writes an open letter to a woman who mistook him for a waiter at the National Book Awards.
How Much is Too Much to Save a Dying Cat? By s.e. smith Feature A series of losses prompts s.e. smith to wonder why, if it’s inevitable, we tend to view death as failure.
How Cinnabon Perfected Its Recipe By Mike Dang Highlight The story behind a “world famous” cinnamon roll.
Is This House Haunted, or Is That Just a Drunk Guy on the Lawn? By Michelle Weber Highlight The owners of the real-life Amityville Horror house had to have the street address changed to avoid the real terror: tourists.
The RNC, Revisited By Longreads Feature Last year, when Jared Yates Sexton went to Cleveland, the ugliness he saw there was a harbinger of much to come.
Bringing Up the Bodies: How NecroSearch Helps Police to Locate the Dead By Krista Stevens Highlight Why do they volunteer their time in such a grisly enterprise? To bring closure to the families of the dead.
Searching for Poet Frank Stanford By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Traveling to Arkansas to search for mythic poet Frank Stanford.
The Opera Lover Who Composed “Bat Out of Hell” By Ben Huberman Highlight On the origins of the quintessential rock aria, and the powerhouse singer that served as its muse.
How to Replace a Ghost By Alana Massey Feature En route to a wedding, Alana Massey is haunted by the ghosts of relationships past.
An Unapologetic Plea for Your Help Funding More Personal Essays By Sari Botton Commentary Longreads’ Essays Editor on the importance of budgeting for personal narratives.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Roxane Gay, Katherine Heiny, Alexandra Starr, Dionne Searcey, and Anna Silman.
The Itch and the Touch By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Families are complicated. Caring for Grandpa John was even more so.
Language Acquisition By Diana Spechler Feature Diana Spechler recalls fleeing her life in New York City for a new one with a painter in his village in central Mexico.
The Teen Girls Who Defied Boko Haram By Krista Stevens Highlight The bravest members of the Nigerian resistance are the teenage girls who refuse to become tools of terrorism.
Idaho Conservatives Are Trying to Move the American GOP Further Right By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For the ultra-right wing Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, today’s GOP isn’t Republican enough.
What We’re Not Talking About When We Talk About Tiny House Hunters By Michelle Weber Highlight Big economic anxieties, writ small.
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music By Longreads Feature On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
The Female Fracker: A Rare Species in North Dakota By Krista Stevens Highlight Imagine being the only woman living with 200 roughnecks — risking your personal safety every day — just to make a buck.
Widespread Abuse in Kids’ Sports Shows How Institutions Enable Predators By Mike Dang Highlight Institutions like to plead ignorance whenever allegations of sex abuse become public, but they’re often complicit.
Burned Where They Stood: The First Nine Hours of the California Wildfires By Michelle Weber Highlight “There just aren’t enough firefighters in the West to fight that much fire.”
What Happened to eBay? By Em Perper Highlight I haven’t peeked at eBay in years, and apparently I’m not the only one who’s forgotten it exists.
The Wolf In a Puffy Marmot Jacket By Krista Stevens Highlight Even when his tall tales became erratic, women still didn’t want to believe Jeff Caldwell was ripping them off.
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