Remembering Nelson Mandela’s Contribution to Sports By Matt Giles Commentary Nelson Mandela long realized that sports was a great unifier.
Tennessee Williams’ Catastrophe of Success By Catherine Cusick Highlight Fame turned the playwright into a “public Somebody” overnight — a crisis that landed him in the hospital.
Inside ESPN’s ’30 for 30 Podcasts’ Launch By Matt Giles Commentary Producer Jody Avirgan transforms the visual medium of sports into compelling audio stories.
Why the “Black Grateful Dead” Thrives Outside of Top 40 Radio By Danielle Jackson Highlight For the Undefeated, music writer and essayist Bruce Britt offers a compelling history of soul band Maze.
Why Are Humans So Curious? By Jessica Gross Feature Mario Livio on his new book about human curiosity, his work as an astrophysicist, and why we shouldn’t fear our expanding universe.
Searching London for My ‘Third Place’ By Jessica Brown Feature Years after agoraphobia kept her housebound, Jessica Brown walks the streets of her adopted city seeking deeper connection.
Alexander Chee on Rediscovering Art for Pleasure in Greece By Krista Stevens Highlight The author sketches his way around Sifnos, capturing memories Moleskine notebook.
California’s Housing Crisis Is About Jobs, Not Houses By Mark Armstrong Commentary It’s not the pace of housing construction. It’s that the world’s most successful companies are gathered in a small number of cities.
Roger Federer Isn’t Stopping Any Time Soon By Mike Dang Highlight Federer is the oldest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in the Open Era, and he doesn’t appear to be slowing down.
Youth From Every Quarter By Longreads Feature A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Catherine Cusick Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lawrence Wright, April Wolfe, Mayukh Sen, Dan Jackson, and Ben Kuchera.
The Condition that Shielded My Grandfather From Heartbreak By Kate Axelrod Feature Kate Axelrod reflects on the last days of her grandmother’s life, and witnessing as her grandfather’s own decline helped him to survive losing his wife of 66 years.
The St. Louis Suburbs Bear the Cost of America’s Nuclear Past By Danielle Jackson Highlight After toxic waste from the Manhattan Project was illegally dumped in 1974, rare illnesses have effected the local population.
The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip By Justin Nobel Feature Louisiana serves as a terrifying example of what can become of a state that shortchanges science and environmental regulations to boost industry and infrastructure.
Men Explain Sylvia Plath’s Suffering to Us By Sari Botton Highlight Emily Van Duyne wonders why Sylvia Plath’s accounts of Ted Hughes’s violence toward her have been so frequently dismissed or minimized.
The Making of ‘Meatballs’: Is Bill Murray Even Going to Show Up? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The 1979 summer camp comedy was Bill Murray’s breakout film. It also almost didn’t happen.
Who I Became at the Running of the Bulls By Ella Alexander Feature In Pamplona, Ella Alexander found an adrenaline rush, an interesting story, and a side of herself she didn’t recognize.
Conservative Values, Meet Drag Values By Catherine Cusick Commentary RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Velour responds to a divisive political climate by celebrating beauty, brains, and belonging.
Talking with Multi-Genre Writer Walter Mosley By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.
Becoming Estranged from My Family ‘Was the Best Thing for Me’ By Jessica Gross Feature Jessica Berger Gross on what it means to sever ties with your family.
My Parents Said I Bruised Easily By Jessica Berger Gross Feature An excerpt from “Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home,” by Jessica Berger Gross.
Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Eliza Brooke, Aaron Cantú, Michael Kruse, Lucinda Chambers, and Lucas Reilly.
Unsportsmanlike Conduct! The Cathartic (and Expensive) Act of Racket Abuse By Mike Dang Highlight In tennis, smashing a racket can be an easy way to vent your frustrations, but it also comes with consequences.
My Grandfather’s Fateful Goodbye, Reimagined By Karissa Chen Feature Karissa Chen tries to reconstruct the moment her grandfather, at 19, left Shanghai for Taiwan on a supposed vacation—a decision that would alter his life forever.
The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families By Krista Stevens Highlight As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
#FrenchGirlGoals: Artful Dishevelment and Animal Fats By Michelle Weber Highlight There’s big money for fashion and beauty companies in encouraging the women of the world to emulate the French Girl.
New York in the 1970s Gave Us Hip Hop, Madonna, and the Chip on Trump’s Shoulder By Ben Huberman Highlight “You bang your head against the wall to try to get some nice buildings up, and what happens? Everybody comes after you.”
Building a World of Acceptance: A Conversation with DeRay Mckesson By Cody Delistraty Feature Activist DeRay Mckesson says that to make this world a better place, people need to pick one thing to work on and keep at it.
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
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