Why We Resist: Seven Stories About Protest

There are stories here about the Native-led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, folks standing up to Donald Trump and his white supremacist cronies, and prisoners striking against their miserable living conditions in a racist system.

Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 4, 2016

‘And Yet, You Try’

A doctor’s quest to save his son.

Published: Dec 4, 2016
Length: 23 minutes (5,896 words)

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.

Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 2, 2016

‘Gosh, It’s Beautiful.’

How did a boring Nintendo game from 1987 become the most coveted cartridge ever?

Source: ESPN
Published: Dec 2, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,293 words)

Crossed Stitches

Rachel Monroe investigates a T-shirt quilt empire that went under and the laypeople-turned-detectives who dedicated themselves to recovering their mementos lost in the chaos.

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Nov 27, 2016
Length: 25 minutes (6,426 words)

The Power of Will

When Pat and Dina Lacey discovered that their baby, Will, had a rare form of childhood cancer, they were told to expect the worst—that Will was incurable. They did not expect to go on a years-long journey with a doctor named Giselle Sholler who would help them, and many other children, fight for a miracle treatment.

Source: Boston Globe
Published: Dec 1, 2016
Length: 49 minutes (12,388 words)

The Need to Read

Making the case for packing your life with fewer unnecessary activities and material items in order to make room for the thing you already love but do too little of: read books. Here’s what books do for one author, and what they can do for you.

Published: Nov 25, 2016
Length: 9 minutes (2,440 words)

The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn

A profile of Carrie Goldberg, a lawyer who, after being harassed online by an ex, became inspired to become exactly the lawyer she—and other women who fall victim to “revenge porn”—needed.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 28, 2016
Length: 33 minutes (8,289 words)

Traces of Times Lost

One journalist and parent explores the elusive nature of early memory, the ways children’s minds work, and why certain information does not stay with us, but still has a profound impact.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Nov 29, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2,688 words)

Hidebound: The Grisly Invention of Parchment

While most of the Old World was writing on papyrus, bamboo, and silk, Europe carved its own gruesome path through the history books.

Published: Dec 1, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,720 words)