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This month’s books newsletter is pretty chatty for a topic that’s supposedly the pastime of introverts!

MTV’s “The Hills” was a memorable reality show with an even more memorable theme song.

Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.

“With great abundance comes great discipline.”

Recovering addicts are fighting the opioid epidemic.

Both franchises led the NBA’s international expansion, and to stand out in the hockey-crazed country, the teams would need impressive logos and colorways to break through, but no one expected a red raptor or a grizzly bear outlined in Haida trim.

One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.

Billie Jean King once tried to find a sustainable business model for feminist sports coverage. Then women’s fitness tried to revive the swimsuit model.

Before he founded High Times, Tom Forcade was a renegade journalist willing to throw a pie—or a lawsuit—in the face of anyone restricting his constitutional freedoms.

Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?

When art is a should or a must or a have to, when we turn it into a chore, it is the opposite of what art is supposed to be.

In Xi Jinping’s China, “tens of thousands of people have disappeared into the maw of the police state,” including global movie star Fan Bingbing.

Decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.

Longreads turns 10 in two months! @Longreads is an Aries?!

The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.

“I want someone to remember even just one of my songs, especially when a night is too silent, and that old gray curls back around me like a shroud, making me wonder, again, if any song of mine will be worth recalling at all.”

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in food writing.

Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in sports writing.

No longer able to live on her freelance writing income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a holiday seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center.

Policymakers’ neglect of caregiving harms a major force in American labor.

In 1978, James Baldwin began working on a screenplay for Giovanni’s Room, his most beloved work. For the past forty years, though, the script has been shelved in a London flat.

Jim Acosta isn’t the first reporter to be barred from the White House—when Stuart Loory reported on the possibility that Richard Nixon was bilking taxpayers, he found himself on the president’s enemies list.

At nearly age 70, Charles is the “longest-waiting heir apparent in history.”

New York might be Lou Reed’s most politically active album, especially on tracks like “Halloween Parade,” which functions both as a dirge and call-to-action confronting societal torpidity.

“He’s sold 150 million albums and been famous for five decades. But do we really know Elton John?”

In this economy, what’s a fair share?

Tryggvi Hlinason is a sheep farmer at the center of a new generation of Icelandic basketball talent. He’s trying to do something that only one other Icelander has done before — play in the NBA.

But I’m a creep / I’m a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don’t belong here

While ICE makes headlines, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency continues to detain and search American citizens far from the actual border, and it doesn’t need a warrant.