‘Who’s Going to Take Care of Me?’: When the Coronavirus Takes Both Parents By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In the wake of their parents’ deaths, three siblings struggle to get through the day-to-day.
The Promised Land By Alice Driver Feature A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Patricia Lockwood, Rachel E. Gross, and Theresa Okokon.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets By Katy Kelleher Feature Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?
Removing Beethoven’s Wig: A Classical Music Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List Classical music is more than dead Europeans in wigs, starched collars, and stuffy concert halls. What classical music is, where it’s going, and what it still can be.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Gell, Donovan X. Ramsey, Hannah L. Drake, E. Alex Jung, and Lina Mounzer.
‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.
I Don’t Wear Pink By Carolyn Wells Highlight “I believe in reincarnation,” my 4-year-old announced, confidently. “And when I come back, I’m going to be a boy, and my name will be Shane.”
Smoking: A Legal Weed Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List The economy, the culture, and the promise of cannabis.
She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids By Kathryn Joyce Feature How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Greg Jaffe, Justine van der Leun, Diana Moskovitz, Katy Vine, and Brian VanHooker.
Down the Rabbit Hole: A Psychedelic Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List The science, the strangeness, the promise, of psychedelic journeys.
The Grieving Landscape By Longreads Feature Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mitchell S. Jackson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Melissa Fay Greene, Luke Harding, and Irina Dumitrescu.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lucas Waldron, Nadia Sussman, Thalia Beaty, and Ryan Gabrielson, as well as Jamil Smith, Cynthia Tucker, Venkatesh Rao, and Sirin Kale.
Hearing Voices By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Even after he quit smoking marijuana, one young college student couldn’t escape the auditory hallucinations that he’d first experienced during heavy use.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wesley Lowery, Sarah Bellamy, Shawn Yuan, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and Gabrielle Bellot.
The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.
Life in the Chelsea Hotel During Pandemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The remaining residents face isolation, and the challenges of preserving their history while enduring the present.
Trading Spaces By Cheryl Jarvis Feature Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.
India’s Journalistic Source of Narrative Nonfiction By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The dangers of journalists speaking the truth will not slow this Indian magazine down.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ibram X. Kendi, Wesley Morris, James Baldwin, Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason, and Josina Guess.
The Spectacular Explosion of Cannabis’ Ambitious Startup MedMen By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight This is how part of cannabis industry came down from its high.
Japan’s Lonely Cherry Blossoms By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Millions of people turn out to see Japan’s famous sakura blossoms. This year, Covid-19 kept the usual crowds at home, though the blossom makes a fitting metaphor for evanescence.
What Didn’t Kill Her By Bernice L. McFadden Feature Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.
Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent By Longreads Feature At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.
How Travel Writing May Look After the Pandemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Although people will always travel and write about their experiences, it remains unclear how the travel writing form will look after Covid-19.
Public Education’s White Flight Problem By Livia Gershon Feature More than 50 years after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, little has changed, and several groups are hoping to use policy and practice to fix this longstanding issue.
How Covid Is Decimating British Music Journalism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What will England be like with fewer music magazines?
The NHL’s Lacrosse Takeover By Sam Riches Feature How two kids from London, Ontario birthed the most unique goal in hockey’s history.
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