Tania’s World

Rolling Stone‘s 1975 cover story on Patty Hearst’s time on the run as a fugitive with the SLA.

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Oct 23, 1975
Length: 47 minutes (11,800 words)

‘It’s Yours’: A Short History of the Horde

How Ta-Nehisi Coates built the best comment section on the internet—and why it can’t last.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 4, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,458 words)

Taking the Slow Road: An Interview with Author Katherine Heiny

She published a short story in The New Yorker in 1992, then seemed to all but disappear. How author Katherine Heiny took her sweet time on the path toward publishing her new story collection.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 3, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,683 words)

What Really Happened to Baby Johan

After a father drops his three-month-old son, a family tragedy becomes a criminal case that raises questions about controversial nature of shaken baby syndrome.

Source: Matter
Published: Feb 2, 2015
Length: 30 minutes (7,565 words)

The Prep School And The Predator

A viral story helps expose a predatory teacher’s abusive history at an elite all-girls private school in Los Angeles.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Feb 2, 2015
Length: 13 minutes (3,420 words)

The 2015 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the winning stories.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 2, 2015

The Trip Treatment

Research into psychedelics has been demonized and shut down for decades. But recent psilocybin trials from Johns Hopkins and New York University are helping researchers reconsider the therapeutic potential of the drugs.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Feb 2, 2015
Length: 41 minutes (10,355 words)

The Rise of Joan of Arc: How a Visionary Peasant Girl Defied a Dress Code and Challenged the Patriarchy

Following the guidance of the voices only she could hear, Joan, a peasant girl living in a world dominated by aristocrats and men, left her home to convince the dauphin—and many men along the way—that only she could save France and make him king.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 2, 2015
Length: 28 minutes (7,119 words)

The Failing Light

Why did a rising young poet plunge into despair, killing her son and then herself

Author: Paula Span
Source: Washington Post
Published: Feb 15, 2004
Length: 37 minutes (9,300 words)

Friends 4 Ever: Five Stories About Friendship

Inspired by Maria Bustillos’s “Friendship is Complicated,” this week’s Reading List is about the joy, power and struggles of friendship.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 1, 2015