“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day” By David Gambacorta Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.
Happy Birthday Tom: A Tom Cruise Reading List By Chloe Walker Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 — time for a look back at the life of a master maverick.
The Women Who Built Grunge By Lisa Whittington-Hill Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.
Stranger Things: A Reading List of Unsolved Mysteries By Lisa Bubert Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.
‘We Are Everywhere’: A Reading List for the Queer South By Spencer George It is time now to listen. We are not going anywhere.
Sister of the Moon: A Stevie Nicks Reading List By jspiveycaddell Six stories celebrating Stevie Nicks in honor of her birthday on May 26th.
Cabin Fever: A Reading List for the Perpetually Isolated By Kara Devlin How the pandemic made us confront what it means to be alone.
Low Country, High Water: A Reading List for a South Under Climate Change By Spencer George How do you love a place that is sinking?
The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting By Robert Isenberg More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.
The Emptying By Longreads “I’m amazed at our human capacity to adapt to the unbearable. Almost anything can seem normal if it’s inflicted on us long enough.”
The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell By Genevieve Fullan Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
Analyzing the ‘Bimbo’: A Reading List on Hollywood Blondes By Sascha Cohen The source of glamour, sex, and transgression? Or a carefully crafted persona? A closer look at the Hollywood blonde.
Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline By Lisa Bubert Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.
Great American Wasteland By Longreads I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.
Disappearing Language: A Reading List on Losing Your Native Tongue By Pardeep Toor Powerful reads on which language comes first, second, or even third.
Bones, Bones: How to Articulate a Whale By Peter Wayne Moe “I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”
Charting Worlds: Five Longreads About Maps By Cheri Lucas Rowlands From fantasylands to unique cartographers (including one that’s non-human), here are five stories about maps.
Selling Mayfair: The Very Different World of Prime Central London Realtors By Carolyn Wells On the fascinating world of London real estate.
How a Hacker Named P4x Took Down North Korea’s Internet By Krista Stevens North Korea hacked him. Things got personal.
The Unlikely Hero in George Saunders’ Short Story, ‘The Falls’ By Krista Stevens And he “…stopped in his tracks, wondering what in the world two little girls were doing alone in a canoe speeding toward the Falls, apparently oarless.”
The Ticking Clock of an Avalanche Rescue By Carolyn Wells “He watched as gravity took hold of the dislodged snow, sending it down the hill. The enormous white wall was sliding in his direction.”
What Death Means to Love and What Love Means to Death By Krista Stevens “But perhaps it’s neither here nor there how we think about death. Perhaps the work that must be done is in how we think about life.”
Going into Starbucks to Order Butter Tea By Krista Stevens “Pema wants to ask Jamal, Have you seen the news? But of course he hasn’t. He’s got other things to think about and now so does she.”
The Complicated Capitalism of Plastics By Krista Stevens “It might not seem like the right time to talk about plastics…But it is. And the world doesn’t have a moment to waste.”
Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race By Devin Kelly Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.
The Great British Reading List By Carolyn Wells A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.
Nine Longreads Stories Recognized Across This Year’s ‘Best American’ and ‘Year’s Best’ Series By Longreads These essays and features across science, food, and sports are worth a read.
Twenty Years Later: A 9/11 Reading List By Krista Stevens Six stories on the immediate and ongoing aftermath of the attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001.
A Tall Tree Reading List By Carolyn Wells Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.
Bringing Species Back … From the Brink By Carolyn Wells “You could actually restore a species to be even more diverse and healthier than it was before, Church says. “You can include diversity from multiple points in the globe and multiple points in time.””
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