What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory

Longreads is proud to feature an exclusive excerpt from Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life, the forthcoming memoir by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee. Lee’s story was first featured on Longreads in 2014, for her BuzzFeed essay, “I Had a Stroke at 33.”

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 8, 2017
Length: 17 minutes (4,276 words)

Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports

The president’s executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 8, 2017
Length: 6 minutes (1,600 words)

Making Sense of Our Compulsions

Sharon Begley explores the behaviors we engage in to cope with unbearable anxiety.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 8, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,932 words)

My Weekend at a Sex Lodge

Feeling depressed post-election and run down by the rigors of parenthood, Ada Calhoun and her husband try to rekindle their spark at the kind of “romantic” Poconos resort she saw advertised on television as a kid–champagne-glass-shaped jacuzzi and all.

Source: Elle
Published: Feb 7, 2017
Length: 12 minutes (3,077 words)

Eating Toward Immortality

For nutritionist and intuitive eating advocate Michelle Allison, diet culture is just another way of dealing with the fear of death.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Feb 7, 2017
Length: 8 minutes (2,004 words)

Read the Letter Coretta Scott King Wrote Opposing Sessions’s 1986 Federal Nomination

On Tuesday, February 7th, Elizabeth Warren was silenced by Republicans at Jeffrey Sessions’s confirmation hearing as Attorney General, because she read aloud Coretta Scott King’s March 19, 1986 letter to Senator Strom Thurmond opposing Sessions’ appointment as a Federal Judge for the Southern District of Alabama. King’s objection stemmed from Sessions’ alleged attempts to intimidate elderly black voters from voting, via a 1984 voter fraud case he prosecuted. In the letter, she writes, “Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used-the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. This simply cannot be allowed to happen.” (Many news outlets have since published links to the letter, but most credit the Washington Post with having it first.)

Source: Washington Post
Published: Feb 7, 2017
Length: 7 minutes (1,878 words)

How a Global Board Games Giant Exploited Ireland’s Magdalene Women

In 20th century Ireland, thousands of women were forced into authoritarian convents for acts deemed immoral, even though some them resulted from sexual abuse. While they were there, one private company put many of these women to work and then tried to hide its own shameful behavior.

Source: Little Atoms
Published: Apr 14, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,880 words)

Will Violence Save Football?

In an  excerpt from his book, But What If We’re Wrong?, Chuck Klosterman wonders if the sport that defines America will survive not in spite of its brutality but because of it.

Source: GQ
Published: May 31, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3,071 words)

Ralph Steadman: The Gonzo Marksman

“It can be hard to fill the hours, so I try to make a mark every day.” Ralph Steadman, the Welsh artist best known for his political cartoons and collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson, continues to make art that makes a statement.

Author: Xan Rice
Source: New Statesman
Published: Jan 3, 2017
Length: 17 minutes (4,493 words)

The 2017 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List

While the big titles, like New York, ESPN the Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine, held sway in several categories, there were some stunners among the honors, including Huffington Post Highline, Pacific Standard, California Sunday Magazine, and Eater. Mother Jones won the Ellie for “Magazine of the Year.”

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 7, 2017