The End of Poker Night

In this personal essay, Mindy Greenstein looks back on the gambling that was a big part of life with her Holocaust refugee parents.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 13, 2019
Length: 16 minutes (4,228 words)

Where the Trouble Started

In this personal essay, decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 6, 2019
Length: 13 minutes (3,467 words)

The Problem With Nostalgia

Michael Musto argues that wearing rose-colored glasses always leads to an unfair distortion — looking back on the best of the past while comparing it to the worst of the present.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 5, 2019
Length: 8 minutes (2,048 words)

Even the Dogs

In an excerpt from her memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden recalls a harrowing adventure with her parents.

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Published: Mar 4, 2019
Length: 7 minutes (1,940 words)

The Real Danger on the Promenade

After coming out, Steffan Triplett considers rekindling a broken friendship, dancing with danger and mystery in a secluded area on the edge of town.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 1, 2019
Length: 12 minutes (3,080 words)

The Reappearing Act

A personal essay in which, in the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 26, 2019
Length: 14 minutes (3,621 words)

The Blaming of the Shrew

Sara Fredman explore antiheroes of Golden Age television shows — and the nasty women who humanized them.

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Published: Feb 28, 2019
Length: 11 minutes (2,982 words)

Baring the Bones of the Lost Country: The Last Paleontologist in Venezuela

In light of recent events in crisis-ridden Venezuela, its last vertebrate paleontologist puts together key pieces of the baffling puzzle that the country has become in the past couple of decades.

Author: Zoe Valery
Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 27, 2019
Length: 20 minutes (5,011 words)

Johnny Rotten, My Mom, and Me

Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with the poverty, violence, and despair both outside and inside their Brooklyn home.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 22, 2019
Length: 28 minutes (7,118 words)

Class Dismissed

When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 19, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,250 words)