Editor’s Roundtable: Cities, And How They Used to be Good (Podcast) By Longreads This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The CT Mirror, and Engadget.
Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast) By Longreads This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
‘Give It Up For My Sister’: Beyonce, Solange, and The History of Sibling Acts in Pop By Danielle Jackson Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.
This Month In Books: ‘What Creates That Need To Leap?’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter has one foot out the door.
Editors Roundtable: Violence of Men, Money, and Space (Podcast) By Longreads Catherine Cusick, Kelly Stout, Ethan Chiel, and Aaron Gilbreath discuss stories by Wil S. Hylton, Josephine Livingstone, Jesse Barron, and Rivka Galchen.
Editors Roundtable: Alma Matters, Raisin Hell, and Upstairs Cocaine (Podcast) By Longreads This week, we’re discussing stories in The Cut, Vulture, The New York Times, Topic, and The Atavist.
We All Work for Facebook By Livia Gershon Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference By Aaron Gilbreath The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
This Month In Books: Botanize Your Past To Save the Future By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is overflowing with regional fiction, travel writing … and retro-botany.
‘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.
