‘Play Another Slow Jam, This Time Make It Sweet’ By Danielle Jackson The term “slow jam” became widely popular when a song performed by Midnight Star debuted in 1983.
This Month In Books: The Anxiety of No Influence By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about pasts and futures, and how lineages stretch across time.
This Month In Books: ‘This Is Really Not What I Want To Be Reading’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is jam-packed with scammers, censors, and … other books.
The New Scabs: Stars Who Cross the Picket Line By Soraya Roberts “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,” wrote George Orwell in 1946, and it still stands.
The Lost Boys of #MeToo By Soraya Roberts When we hear “sexual abuse” we think “women and girls.” But Hollywood’s boy actors are suffering in a different way.
The Classroom Origins of Toxic Masculinity By Soraya Roberts It’s a relatively new term for a concept as old as time.
This Month In Books: ‘How Thick Was the Cane?’ and Other Questions About Things By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is all about things. As in stuff, objects. Because, as Heike Geissler says, “It’s because of all the things that are here… that you’re here in the first place.”
Eleven Books to Read in 2019 By Dana Snitzky We asked eleven authors to tell us about an amazing book that we might have missed in 2018.
Memory and the Lost Cause By Danielle Jackson An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.
Remembering Singer Nancy Wilson By Tom Maxwell The influential singer’s voice cut across genres and decades, and it will continue to.
This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
Longreads Best of 2018: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Longreads Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
The Longreads 2018 Holiday Gift Book Guide By Dana Snitzky We’ve made a catalog of books we featured in 2018 that we think would make great gifts.
A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy By Livia Gershon Policymakers’ neglect of caregiving harms a major force in American labor.
James Baldwin and the Lost Giovanni’s Room Screenplay By Matt Giles 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.
This Month in Books: ‘When Will I Be a Winner?’ or, ‘Mr. President, I Have a Headache’ By Dana Snitzky In this month’s books newsletter, you’re going to get tired of winning.
The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write By Sari Botton Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.
When Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media By Matt Giles 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.
Remembering Ntozake Shange By Danielle Jackson The poet, novelist, and playwright Ntozake Shange died Saturday, October 27.
On Blackface, Bert Williams, and Excellence By Danielle Jackson A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.
“This Halloween is Something to Be Sure”: An Examination of Lou Reed’s New York By Matt Giles 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.
Help Us Fund More Original Essays (and Great Art to Go with Them) By Sari Botton Member contributions help us to amplify diverse voices and give chances to new writers.
This Month In Books: “Once You Can See the Pattern” By Dana Snitzky A lot of what you’ll read in this month’s books newsletter is about things not seeming to be what they really are.
Why Are We Still Ignoring Lee Krasner? By Matt Giles Lee Krasner wasn’t just instrumental to the evolution of Jackson Pollock as an artist. Her influence extended across the Abstract-Expressionist movement.
Lady Gaga, Celeb Profiles, and the Third Remake of “A Star is Born” By Danielle Jackson Rachel Syme profiles Lady Gaga and dives deep into the mystique and mythology of “A Star is Born.”
Remembering G. Dep, the Rapper Who Confessed to a 17-Year Old Cold Case By Matt Giles Lil Wayne’s reimagining of G. Dep’s “Special Delivery” has thrust the ex-Bad Boy rapper back into the pop culture spotlight.
Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis? By Matt Giles The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming.
