OK Listener, We’ll Talk About OK Boomer By Longreads Longreads editors chat with Internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz about ok boomer, TikTok, patriotism, and more.
This Month In Books: The Book Is an Escape Tool By Dana Snitzky Sometimes telling a story is the only way to escape it.
The Podcast That Explains Why We’re All Wrong By Mark Armstrong How Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes debunk news scandals of the past.
Influence: Who Gains It and Who Wields It and Who Abuses It By Longreads On the fate of Deadspin, recent longreads on Airbnb and influencers, and the uncanny canon of Wakefield Press.
The Beauty of “Bl-Bl-Bl-Blue Moon” By Krista Stevens As a society, we need to challenge our assumption that stammering makes someone somehow deficient.
Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences By Longreads Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.
This Month In Books: ‘One Degree Is About the Uncanny’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is suspended in a state of anticipation.
‘A World Where Mothers Are Seen’ By Vanessa Martir Vanessa Mártir introduces Writing the Mother Wound, a series of essays on mothering presented in collaboration with Writing our Lives and Longreads.
Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.
Editor’s Roundtable: Climate of the Future, Music of the Past By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.
Fire Sale: Finance and Fascism in the Amazon Rainforest By Will Meyer From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.
Editor’s Roundtable: Democracy Needs Healing Crystals By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Politico.
What Should Universal Basic Income Look Like? By Livia Gershon Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.
Editor’s Roundtable: Fans, ‘Grams and Installment Plans By Longreads Longreads editors discuss recent stories in Inc., The Cut, and The Baffler.
This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.
Editor’s Roundtable: Better Than Working for a Symphony Orchestra (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and the Kenyon Review.
Editor’s Roundtable: Time Well Spent (Podcast) By Eva Voinigescu Longreads editors discuss stories in Jezebel, Governing, and The New Yorker.
Editor’s Roundtable: Antidotes to Loneliness (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.
Editor’s Roundtable: One of the Most Important Pieces of Our Time, Plus Rats and French Cooking (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.
This Month in Books: ‘The Minor Figure Yields to the Chorus’ By Dana Snitzky I’m reading this book right now called “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.” It’s a recursive story-within-a-story sort of thing, and it’s giving me nightmares.
Editor’s Roundtable: Escape the Podcast By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.
Editor’s Roundtable: Smiles, Lies, and Promise (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.
Editor’s Roundtable: Manufactured to Go Viral (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.
On, In, or Near the Sea: A Book List By Alison Fields Summer’s almost over. Alison Fields curated a list of beach-based books to make you feel like you’re still breathing in that sweet sea air.
This Month In Books: ‘You Talk a Lot Don’t You?’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is pretty chatty for a topic that’s supposedly the pastime of introverts!
What Is Elizabeth Rush Reading? : Books on Antarctic Adventure, Ice, Motherhood By Dana Snitzky “I sometimes wonder if this continent of ice is begging for a different kind of story to be told about it.”
Editor’s Roundtable: All Things Being Unequal (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, Columbia Review of Journalism, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard.
Editor’s Roundtable: Just Put Some Eyes On There (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Grub Street, The New Yorker, Gay Magazine, and The Verge.
If I Made $4 a Word, This Article Would Be Worth $10,000 By Soraya Roberts Journalism’s one percent would rather make up a fake feud than address the reality of the industry’s pay disparity, which benefits them and no one else.
