Trading Spaces By Cheryl Jarvis Feature Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.
How Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England By Paul Feature In Victorian London, a gang of U.S. hustlers attempts a ten-million-dollar heist on the safest bank in the world. Can the detective who inspired Sherlock Holmes catch them?
What Didn’t Kill Her By Bernice L. McFadden Feature Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.
Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent By Longreads Feature At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.
Public Education’s White Flight Problem By Livia Gershon Feature More than 50 years after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, little has changed, and several groups are hoping to use policy and practice to fix this longstanding issue.
The NHL’s Lacrosse Takeover By Sam Riches Feature How two kids from London, Ontario birthed the most unique goal in hockey’s history.
Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Feature An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
So Much More Than Enough By Soraya Roberts Feature My favorite director, Lynn Shelton, died suddenly this month at the age of 54. Did the spirit of indie filmmaking go with her?
Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia By Anne Thériault Feature History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.
Lloyd’s Mattress By Scott Korb Feature Scott Korb contemplates disgust — his own, yours — at the kind of magical thinking that promises (with fingers crossed) to protect us from all the causes of dying.
On the Hotness of Not Getting Any By Soraya Roberts Feature Edging, or extending the time leading up to an orgasm, is almost a character of its own in Normal People, Run, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It also has a lot to teach us about sexuality and consent.
Shelved: The Misfits’ 12 Hits From Hell By Tom Maxwell Feature For a bunch of rock ‘n’ rollers creating the horror punk genre, the Misfits sure were sensitive.
The Lie of ‘One Last Time’ with My Ex By Ella Dawson Feature Ella Dawson learns about the perils of break-up sex the hard way.
What I Want to Know of Kindness By Devin Kelly Feature On masculinity, grief, and learning from suffering.
Self Portrait With iPhone By Pam Mandel Feature Newly single in her mid-50s, Pam Mandel swipes through dozens of selfies, including her own.
Phone Call in The Age of Coronavirus By Max Feature Marcia Aldrich on why cell phones, so thin and light and little, don’t seem fitting for momentous calls, for life and death communications, or for last words.
American Tests By Jakki Kerubo Feature In her quest to become truly American, Jakki Kerubo discovers what it means to belong in a place.
And Then We Grew Up By Sarah Menkedick Feature On letting go of potential and other myths of greatness.
What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple? By Soraya Roberts Feature It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I? On the isolation of disconnection.
Fear of Suffering Alone By Anne Liu Kellor Feature After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.
Following the North Star By Shaheen Pasha Feature Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.
In Search of Etty Hillesum By Elizabeth Svoboda Feature The work of a young Jewish diarist, writing in Amsterdam around the time Anne Frank began her famous diary, shows the transformation of pain into radical altruism.
Japan: A Longform Reading List of Longform Writing By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Armchair travel is more important than ever, now that pandemic has forced us to stay indoors. Reading can take you across the ocean.
Secret Museums By B. Pietras Feature Struggling with the world’s, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.
Funk Lessons in Sonic Solitude By Longreads Feature “Joi’s recorded performances embodied all the funkiness my little soul had been waiting for.”
Grieving, but Calmed by a Different Kind of Storm By Stephanie Land Feature In isolation, Stephanie Land finds surprising relief from PTSD — and discovers she is able to write again.
The Bigamist’s Daughter By Robin Antalek Feature Robin Antalek considers the legacy of the man who abandoned her for another family and never looked back.
No Time Like the Present By Robert Burke Warren Feature You don’t know what day it is, do you? Robert Burke Warren digs into ‘the Oddball Effect’ and fascinating brain data that may help explain why.
