How Vietnam Shaped Robert S. Mueller By Krista Stevens Commentary After serving in combat during the Vietnam War, nothing Robert S. Mueller encounters will ever be as intense.
When the Amber Alert System Fails: An Abduction on Navajo Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?
K.D. Lang Will Indulge Your Craving for “Constant Craving” By Krista Stevens Commentary K.D. Lang’s seminal album Ingénue is 25 years old. Penelope Green talks to K.D. Lang about how she’s evolved as an artist in the last quarter century.
“Give a Sister Her Due”: Why Richmond, Virginia, Should Honor the Mother of Rock ‘n’ Roll By Krista Stevens Commentary Legendary electric guitarist and gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe chose Richmond, Virginia as her home for over a decade. It’s about time the city honored her.
Welcome to the New Transnational Paradigm By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove By Jonny Auping Feature “If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval By Longreads Feature Hunter-gatherers tended to think of pets as part of the family, and so do we. But in other time periods, intimacy with animals has been more taboo.
Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals By Ellen Wayland-Smith Feature Since my father’s death, I dream about descents and falls. How, without warning, gravity has you in its grip.
Speaking Candidly about Opioid Dependence and Legal, Safe Alternatives By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One journalist shares what her experience with prescription painkillers taught her about decriminalization and recovery.
It’s Never Too Late to Apologize By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Bari Weiss, Bret Stephens, and Katie Roiphe have to try to be better, right along with the rest of us.
Struggling to Balance Business and Conservation in the Amazon Basin By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Driving through the Amazon Basin on a single road to see whether Brazil can balance economic development with rainforest conservation.
What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists By Jonny Auping Feature Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.
The Month of Giving Dangerously By Elizabeth Greenwood Feature Elizabeth Greenwood decides to give everything: time, money, praise, forgiveness. But when does generosity become a mania for giving?
Inside the Absurdity of ‘Spice World’ By Matt Giles Commentary Sirin Kale illustrates the film’s appeal to a generation of adolescents who were struck by the Spice Girls’ inherent coolness.
Art in the Age of Blockchain By Michelle Legro Commentary Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.
Longreads Best of 2017: Local Reporting By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in local reporting.
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2017 By Longreads Reading List The personal essays, original reporting, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.
We’re All Alabama Now By Bob Moser Commentary Alabama, it turns out, isn’t an American outlier after all.
My Secondhand Lonely By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Raised by a single, independent mother, one young woman struggles with her familial inheritance and the relationship between self-sufficiency and social isolation.
Suburbanizing Survivalism By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary Inside the booming business of survival food.
Radhika Jones, Meet Condescending and Nasty By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary I mean, Condé Nast. Meet Condé Nast.
Searching for Poet Frank Stanford By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Traveling to Arkansas to search for mythic poet Frank Stanford.
The Intimacy of an Android: An Interview With Alex Mar By Michelle Legro Commentary In her Wired cover story, Mar explores the desire to turn to a robot for comfort or companionship.
The Ghosts of the Tsunami By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The 2011 earthquake and tsunami killed thousands in Japan. Those left behind were haunted by the dead, and some were possessed by them.
The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty By Longreads Feature More than fifty years ago, one man tried to hold the Coors brewery CEO for ransom. Things went very badly.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Takes on the Trump Presidency By Danielle Jackson Commentary In an excerpt from his upcoming book on the Obama administration, Coates constructs an incisive look at Donald Trump’s political ascent.
The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Getting Through 9/11 By Matt Giles Commentary Joshua Bernstein went to his roof that day to drink. He stayed there for a week.
A Bakery Death Reveals the Vulnerable Lives of Temporary Workers By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.
