Loving Carol

Frank Rich on the lost history of lesbian culture in America and Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel The Price of Salt, adapted into the new film Carol from Todd Haynes and starring Cate Blanchett.

Author: Frank Rich
Published: Nov 19, 2015
Length: 16 minutes (4,027 words)

Memoirs of a Revolutionary’s Daughter

A daughter’s story of her father’s arrest, imprisonment, and execution after Iran’s revolution.

Source: The Baffler
Published: Nov 16, 2015
Length: 23 minutes (5,866 words)

Zayn Malik’s Next Direction

A conversation with Malik, who left the biggest boy band in the world in March 2015. Malik describes being in One Direction as standing in front of a canvas for five years and being told he couldn’t paint.

Source: Fader
Published: Nov 17, 2015
Length: 26 minutes (6,558 words)

Good-bye Uterus, Good Riddance

“​A couple of weeks ago, I decided to invite a few friends out for cocktails to toast to my last period.” Longreads contributor A.N. Devers on preparing for a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with endometriosis and adenomyosis.

Source: Lenny
Published: Nov 19, 2015
Length: 8 minutes (2,085 words)

Hidden in a Suitcase

In search of the mother who gave her up for adoption, the author instead finds six siblings—and a family ravaged by addiction.

Published: Nov 16, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,214 words)

Sports at Any Cost

Why are college students footing the bill for an athletics arms race?

Source: HuffPost
Published: Nov 17, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,888 words)

Unfollow

How social media changed the beliefs of a devout member of the Westboro Baptist Church, which pickets the funerals of gay men and of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 16, 2015
Length: 42 minutes (10,643 words)

Cynthia Payne, Madam

An obituary for Britain’s best-known brothel keeper.

Source: The Telegraph
Published: Nov 16, 2015
Length: 8 minutes (2,000 words)

Biography of a Face

Three months ago, Patrick Hardison’s face belonged to a young Brooklyn bike mechanic. Fishman tells the story of both men, and the most extensive face transplant yet performed.

Published: Nov 15, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,186 words)

On Gawker’s Problem with Women

A former Gawker staffer investigates “how a media company founded on whistleblowing and radical transparency failed its female employees.”

Source: Matter
Published: Nov 16, 2015
Length: 22 minutes (5,665 words)