The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners By Matt Giles Reading List This year’s Pulitzer winners include The Salt Lake Tribune, East Bay Times, Colson Whitehead, Heather Ann Thompson, and more.
Choosing Mother India By Pam Mandel Highlight “People insist that only an idiot would move from the land of the dollar to the 68-times-weaker rupee.”
How Ayana Mathis Came to Own Her Ambition By Sari Botton Highlight After a phone call from Oprah, the author looks at the long line of women in her life who taught her about achieving her dreams.
Winnipeg’s Indigenous Bear Clan Patrol Protects the Vulnerable By Krista Stevens Highlight Vice’s Geraldine Malone walks the streets with group of volunteers dedicated to fighting overdoses.
How Adidas Took Over the Sneaker Game with a 50-Year-Old Shoe By Matt Giles Commentary Introduced in 1969, the Adidas Superstar has become the most coveted shoe in the sneaker game.
“IPAs Are Like Fragile Butterflies”: A Conversation with Beer Writer Josh Bernstein By Matt Giles Commentary IPAs currently dominate the craft beer industry in America—and they are poised to take over the world.
Can College Basketball Be Fixed? By Matt Giles Commentary Too many free throws slowed down what could have been an exhilarating national championship game between North Carolina and Gonzaga. Here’s how the NCAA could solve its fouling dilemma next season.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List This week, we’re featuring stories by Reeves Wiedeman, Monica Mark, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Daniel Duane, and Danny Chau.
‘I Knew From the Get-Go it Should be Shirley MacLaine’: George Hodgman on Casting ‘Bettyville’ for TV By Sari Botton Highlight Paramount TV will bring “Bettyville,” George Hodgman’s memoir about caring for his dying mother, to the small screen.
How Should a German Be? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In Harper’s, Yascha Mounk examines how recent Islamic immigration challenges many Germans’ core idea of their national identity.
‘BRB, Killing ISIS Guys’: An American Bro in Syria By Sari Botton Highlight When Brace Belden left his job in San Francisco to fight ISIS, he had no idea he’d become a prominent figure in the Syrian Civil War.
Decolonizing Education in South Africa By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight South African students of color are working to improve the conditions of education in a country that, twenty years after apartheid, is still rigged for the white minority.
Who Says Healthy Food Can’t Be Accessible and Affordable? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Daniel Patterson, and the challenges of bringing fast healthy food to the impoverished neighborhoods trapped in food deserts.
The Swan (Mascot) that Would Not Be Tamed By Ben Huberman Highlight The story of a football team’s mascot, the man inside the costume, and the town that rallied around its local hero.
The Surgeon Who Helped Revolutionize Hand Transplants By Mike Dang Highlight Dr. Kodi Azari dreamed that one day he’d perform a hand transplant on a patient who would wake up from surgery and start moving their fingers right away.
The Current Hot Chicken Craze Is Also about Race and Gentrification By Ben Huberman Highlight In Nashville, an exploration of the current obsession with the city’s signature dish: hot chicken.
‘I Thought, Well, We’ll See What Happens!’: Iconic Editor Nan Talese on Her Marriage and Career By Sari Botton Highlight “Her infidelity was taking other authors’ books into bed with her,” says Nan and Gay Talese’s daughter, Pamela.
Building In the Shadow of Our Own Destruction By Colin Dickey Feature Those who would build enormous structures—skyscrapers, bridges, border walls—should do so with an eye toward their eventual ruin.
‘Turn Off Your Brain and Just Trust Instinct’: Q-Tip on the Evolving Sound of Hip-Hop By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Kyle Kramer, editor at Noisey, talks with A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip about staying true to himself while evolving with the sound of hip-hop.
‘Alexa Is Not Just the Perfect Companion, But the Perfect Spouse’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Can Amazon’s Alexa be your friend—or something more? At Digg, Aaron Paul Calvin examines the recent spike in digital assistants.
Why ESPN Still Can’t Quit Cable By Mark Armstrong Highlight Bloomberg Businessweek‘s latest cover story highlights the tricky economics of licensing live sports.
How an ER Doctor Got Hooked on Fentanyl and Lost It All By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At Toronto Life, Katherine Laidlaw tells the story of Darryl Gebein, who got hooked one of the most dangerous opioids on the market.
‘London Was, But Is No More’ By Michelle Weber Highlight A loving, fascinating, melancholy, rollicking look at how technology and globalization are transforming urban spaces.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
This Is God’s Property By Michelle Weber Highlight Kelsey Munger shares the story of a childhood spent being vigilant against the demons, witches, and werewolves her parents believed were stalking their family.
‘Dance Me to the End of Love’: Joan Juliet Buck on Her Platonic Friendship with Almost-Lover Leonard Cohen By Sari Botton Highlight “Under the influence of Leonard Cohen’s words, Germaine Greer’s polemic, and [Anais] Nin’s lies, I believed that sexual rapture was the key to connection through chaos.”
Why Should a Website Decide Where You’re From? By Michelle Weber Highlight In Real Life Mag, information accessibility and data-use expert Zara Rahman explores the coercive power of the location drop-down menu.
‘Because California Moves Through You’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Essayist Lynell George muses on California and the two cities—Los Angeles and San Francisco—that own a part of her heart.
How Tiny, Yet Über-Efficient Spider Brains Can Improve Computer Technology By Krista Stevens Highlight Big brains offer no advantage in the animal kingdom.
The Religious Iconography of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ By Michelle Weber Highlight A vast range of political, historical, and religious influences went into Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, including one unexpected logo.
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