Gone Gray

In the first essay in Longreads’ new “Fine Lines” series on age and aging, Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 10, 2018
Length: 21 minutes (5,335 words)

Letters from Trenton

While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 5, 2018
Length: 19 minutes (4,829 words)

How to Be Single

In this personal essay, Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 2, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,799 words)

Making Peace with Selective Reduction

When risks arise in her partner’s pregnancy with triplets, Amber Leventry discovers that letting go of one life doesn’t have to mean losing faith, or love.

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Published: Jun 28, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,805 words)

La Otra

In this personal essay, Jaquira Díaz recalls having her world suddenly turned upside down after a woman and her daughter moved in next door.

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Published: Jun 25, 2018
Length: 18 minutes (4,721 words)

A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)

An illustrated personal essay in which New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.

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Published: Jun 20, 2018
Length: 10 minutes (2,600 words)

The Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex

In the third installment of Minda Honey’s #Dating_While_Woke series, an invitation to appear in a PSA prompts her to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.

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Published: Jun 18, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,763 words)

It Isn’t That Shocking

Popular culture likes to depict electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as sinister and dangerous. Leslie Kendall Dye reflects on the myths surrounding the treatment that saved her life.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 23, 2018
Length: 24 minutes (6,055 words)

Sex Workers vs. The Internet

Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 14, 2018
Length: 25 minutes (6,453 words)

A Beginner’s Guide to Fly Fishing With Your Father

It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 15, 2018
Length: 25 minutes (6,282 words)