“Reading makes us human.”
Reading List
A Longreads Collection of Catapult Stories
A reading list of essays we loved from Catapult magazine.
Messy, Messy Love: A Reading List for Star-Crossed Lovers
It’s complicated: A tribute to real love stories, in all their weird and chaotic glory.
From Identity to Inspiration: A Reading List on Why We Run
Six thoughtful reads on why writers run.
Pawns, Puppet Heads, and Paranoia: An Eccentrics Reading List
“They’re a little eccentric” is a phrase I suspect most of us have heard used to describe a certain kind of memorable person. For me, it evokes my childhood dentist — an elderly man who favored colorful bow ties and humming loudly as he worked, and who once wagged his finger in my face and […]
Questioning the Stories We Hold: A Reading List Inspired by Annie Ernaux
Five stories that question the stories we hold about ourselves.
Ten Outstanding Stories to Read in 2023
Ten hand-picked short stories to kick off your year in reading.
More Than Just an Object: A Collector’s Reading List
The bowerbird, which lives on the east coast of Australia, has an abiding eye for anything blue. Solitary males travel great distances to bring back all manner of blue objects to decorate their nests. Shells, flowers, plastic bottles, and feathers are all fair game, and bowerbirds have even been known to grind up blue pigments […]
Anatomy of the Mask: A Reading List on Superhero Comics
The adventures of superheroes reveal a lot about the people who created them — and the marginalized communities they represent.
