This Week in Books: This Moment Doesn’t Remind Me of Anything By Dana Snitzky Lawrence Wright did it again; Jordan Peterson in a coma?; Myriam Gurba forced out of her job; Woody Allen canceled by his publisher’s employees; THE VIRUS; and more.
When Time Costs Too Much By Carolyn Wells If you are the family breadwinner, how do you calculate the value of time with your children?
Curation: The Best Reading, Hand-Picked, For You By Krista Stevens Great writing moves us. It makes us feel good. It fills us with potential. Doesn’t everyone want to feel good and optimistic? Is this a mission you can get behind?
This Month in Books: The Decameron Is Online By Dana Snitzky We can all quarantine alone, together, in one big villa in the cloud.
15 True Crime Longreads and the Questions We Should Ask Ourselves When Reading Them By Catherine Cusick By bringing new dimensions to an unjust process, a well-told story has the power to impact some of our most flawed systems.
Strong Writer-Editor Partnerships Create the Best Stories, As This Extended Bus Metaphor Will Prove By Michelle Weber We need your help to keep this bus gassed up.
Behind One of the Sketchiest Men, a Sketchy Woman By Sari Botton Moe Tkacik reveals the web of shadiness lurking behind WeWork’s facade.
8 Longreads by Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling By Catherine Cusick Eight must-read stories that investigate science, belief, and the human impulse to tell stories.
With Your Support, We Can Continue to Be a Space for First-Person Storytelling By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Personal narratives are powerful. Help us support writers and artists who have these stories to tell.
When Readers Support Longreads, We Can Nurture Strong Relationships with Writers By Ben Huberman There’s a direct link between our readers’ commitment to Longreads and our ability to commit your favorite writers.
Longreads Needs Your Support to Raise $50K During Our Winter 2020 Member Drive By Mark Armstrong Longreads is pushing to achieve long-term sustainability, and reader support is more critical than ever.
Making Periods Green To Topple Tampax By Carolyn Wells Will a pain-relieving, CBD-infused, biodegradable cotton tampon be enough to beat Tampax?
Closing the Loop on Diabetes By Carolyn Wells Open source code could be the key to transforming the life of diabetics.
A Tribute to Lynn Cohen, 1933-2020 By Catherine Cusick New York character actress Lynn Cohen died on Valentine’s Day 2020, survived by an extended family of friends and collaborators.
“The Ugliness of Greatness”: A Kobe Bryant Reading List By Matt Giles It has been a dozen days since the shocking death of the Los Angeles Lakers star. How do we talk about Kobe and his legacy on and off the court?
Deconstructing Disney: The Princess Problem of ‘Frozen II’ By Jeanna Kadlec Audiences wanted Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend. But the Frozen franchise is at the center of the corporation’s latest princess project, whose nationalist concerns are decidedly here for the gay agenda.
Don’t Let Old Wounds Die Out By Longreads Our last editors’ roundtable of the season, with guest Nick Chrastil.
This Month In Books: What Did We Miss? By Dana Snitzky The end of the year is a time for regrets. What are the books we didn’t feature?
The Poetry We Need and the Chitchat We Don’t By Longreads What we all need to hear right now, with special guest Marisa Siegel, Editor in Chief of The Rumpus.
Telling About Auschwitz, Before It’s Too Late By Sari Botton His lover in Auschwitz helped him survive. Now he’s sharing his memories to help prevent the worst from happening again.
Longreads Best of 2019: Crime Reporting By Longreads We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in crime reporting.
Longreads Best of 2019: 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.
Reporting Crime or Turning to Crime By Longreads Diligent reporters revisit the histories of two conmen, and how their actions have risked others’ lives in the balance.
The Longreads 2019 Holiday Gift Book Guide By Dana Snitzky Let Longreads help you with your holiday shopping! We’ve made a catalog of books we featured in 2019 that we think would make great gifts for everyone on your list.
Obsession and Release: 10 Years to Write a Longread By Longreads A Longreads Podcast interview with journalists James K. Williamson and Tim Requarth on writing about family.
Open Secrets: Celebrity Sexuality and Athletic Abuse By Longreads Editors discuss the gender politics of music criticism, how young womxn drive conversations around cultural figures, institutionalized discrimination in sport, and more.
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.
