Whose Fault Was Dunkirk?

For years, historians have blamed King Leopold of Belgium. But did they fall for Allied propaganda?

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 7, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,983 words)

The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color

Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 3, 2017
Length: 18 minutes (4,744 words)

Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park

A personal essay in which writer Mabel Rosenheck considers her nostalgia for a key time in her life: the summer of 2003, when she was a young, depressed adult attending the Surf & Skate music festival in Asbury Park with friends in a similar emotional space, whom she’d met on the internet.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 28, 2017
Length: 19 minutes (4,918 words)

Helping My Son Choose Between the Cub Scouts and His Beliefs About God

A personal essay in which Kate Abbott writes about helping her 8-year-old atheist son navigate the Cub Scouts’ “Duty to God” requirement.

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Length: 10 minutes (2,730 words)

Twelve Truths About My Life With Bell’s Palsy

A personal essay in which Pam Moore write about half her face becoming paralyzed after she gave birth to her second child, making her post-partum life much more challenging than anticipated.

Author: Pam Moore
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 25, 2017
Length: 16 minutes (4,065 words)

Mourning the Low-Rent, Weirdo-Filled East Village of Old

A chapter excerpted from Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Vanishing New York blogger “Jeremiah Moss” (the pseudonym for activist and psychoanalyst Griffin Hansbury). Moss traces the current wave of what he calls hyper-gentrification back to the Koch era.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 24, 2017
Length: 27 minutes (6,876 words)

Percy Ross Wants to Give You Money!

He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 20, 2017
Length: 22 minutes (5,700 words)

Flying Solo

A personal essay in which Jen Doll, author of Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest, tries to makes sense of a breakup that happened the day before a romantic vacation — and blindsided her in the same ways the presidential election did.

Author: Jen Doll
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 21, 2017
Length: 24 minutes (6,048 words)

Girl Wonder

When Meaghan O’Connell finished reading a celebrated young author’s debut novel, she felt a mix of admiration, jealousy, and recognition of the powerlessness that comes with young adulthood.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Length: 12 minutes (3,000 words)

Searching London for My Third Place

A personal essay in which Jessica Brown reflects on reading sociologist Ray Oldenburg’s, The Great Good PlaceCafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, and walking the streets of her much gentrified adopted city seeking deeper connection.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 18, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,605 words)