A Finder, No Longer a Keeper

Jenny Klion tries to make sense of her super power of finding lost jewelry where ever she goes, and reflects on how finding someone else’s engagement ring helped her let go of her own.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 14, 2018
Length: 8 minutes (2,134 words)

Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak

Minda Honey’s first in an original Longreads series on dating as a black woman in these times. Here, she assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her romantic life.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 12, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,955 words)

A Teen and a Toy Gun

This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 5, 2018
Length: 32 minutes (8,200 words)

Unpacking Forty Years of Fandom for a Losing Team

In this personal essay, Kevin Sampsell examines his love of football — and a team that’s never won a Super Bowl.

Source: Longreads
Published: Feb 2, 2018
Length: 18 minutes (4,605 words)

The Mutilated and the Disappeared

A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 31, 2018
Length: 21 minutes (5,284 words)

The Month of Giving Dangerously

Elizabeth Greenwood decides to give everything: time, money, praise, forgiveness. But when does generosity become a mania for giving?

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 31, 2018

A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio

A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 30, 2018
Length: 14 minutes (3,538 words)

Recovering My Fifth Sense

In this personal essay, Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.

Author: Kavita Das
Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 29, 2018
Length: 18 minutes (4,512 words)

How ‘Cops’ Became the Most Polarizing Reality TV Show in America

What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 22, 2018
Length: 25 minutes (6,325 words)

From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS and Childlessness

In this personal essay, S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 22, 2018
Length: 26 minutes (6,711 words)