Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.
Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2021 By Longreads Feature Pravesh Bhardwaj read and and shared 304 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2020. Here are his favorites.
Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Essays By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature A small sampling of standout essays published this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s a selection of profiles that resonated with us this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Science and Nature By Carolyn Wells Feature Our top picks in science and nature stories for 2020.
Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19 By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Science and Nature By Carolyn Wells Feature Our top picks in science and nature stories for 2020.
Longreads Best of 2020: Crime Reporting By Carolyn Wells Feature Our top picks in Crime Reporting for 2020.
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
When Boomers Must Zoom By Carolyn Wells Commentary “A friend who teaches at another university tells me that a new Yiddish word has been invented: oysgezoomt, ‘over-exposed to Zoom,’ as in ‘Ich bin azoy oysgezoomt!’ (‘I’m so done with Zoom!’)”
This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack. By Dana Snitzky Commentary To read my “This Week in Books” newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.
How To Make $1000 PER DAY From ANYWHERE In The World!!! Totally Not Shady! By Carolyn Wells Commentary Selling products you never see to people you never meet — the world of dropshipping.
This Week in Books: We’ve All Been Briefed By Dana Snitzky Commentary “They have washed their hands for you. / And they take the bus home.” —Jericho Brown
This Week in Books: Pain and Power By Dana Snitzky Commentary “And it will hurt, but we won’t be the ones doing all of the feeling, finally.” -Harmony Holiday
Longreads Best of 2020: Sports and Games By Krista Stevens Feature With leagues across the world undergoing cancellations for much of the year, 2020 has been an interesting one in the world of sports. Here are some stories that resonated with us.
Longreads Best of 2020: Music Writing By Krista Stevens Feature Music has been a salve this year, helping us cope with the myriad challenges that 2020 brought. Here are some favorite pieces of music writing we picked in 2020.
Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Our top story picks in business writing this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Crime Reporting By Carolyn Wells Feature Our top picks in Crime Reporting for 2020.
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2020 By Krista Stevens Feature The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
Motherhood on the Line By Alice Driver Feature Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Shades of Grey By Ashley Stimpson Feature In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
An Atlas of the Cosmos By Shannon Stirone Feature We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.
The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene By sanderskristin Feature A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.
Summer Mother By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.
Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent By Jeanna Kadlec Feature Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.
Find Yourself By Elizabeth Isadora Gold Feature From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.
The Powerful Decide By Longreads Feature What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court By Gabriel Thompson Feature Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.
Out There: On Not Finishing By Devin Feature What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?
Shelved: Pink Floyd’s Household Objects By Tom Maxwell Feature On Syd Barrett’s time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.
A Lover’s Blues: The Unforgettable Voice of Margie Hendrix By Tari Ngangura Feature Remembering the woman who outsang Ray Charles.
How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries By Irina Dumitrescu Feature A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral By Yxta Maya Murray Feature In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
“Do You Get Shit for Your Name?” By Osama Shehzad Feature When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.
Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.