Why Do We Judge Virgins?

Rachel Hills on her new book, The Sex Myth, which explores our cultural obsession with sex and our disdain for prudishness, vanilla tastes, and virginity.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 11, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,532 words)

The Art of Humorous Nonfiction: A Beer in Brooklyn with the King of the A-Heds

Former Wall Street Journal reporter Barry Newman reflects on 43 years of feature stories that explore the eccentric humanity of our world.

Author: Mary Pilon
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 10, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,724 words)

Whale Tales: A Reading List

These four stories demonstrate humans’ multi-faceted relationship with whales—where politics, the environment and the economy intermingle with love, terror and cruelty.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 9, 2015

A Moment of Zen: Seven Stories Looking Back at Jon Stewart’s Fake-News Legacy

Here are seven stories looking back at how Stewart became the most influential fake-news anchor in the history of television.

Author: Mike Dang
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 6, 2015

Fox and Friends

What’s the point of a hunt without a kill? A look inside the (nearly) bloodless world of fox hunting and a thwarted family legacy.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 6, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,232 words)

In the Grand Scheme of Things

What one mother learned after she discovered her daughter had albinism.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 4, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,634 words)

The Minds Behind Diversity in Comics: A Reading List

The people interviewed and profiled in the following pieces–creators and critics who advocate for diversity and inclusion in pages and on-screen–are the real superheroes.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 2, 2015

The Perils of Writing About Your Own Family: A Conversation with George Hodgman

“Memoir is a total minefield, as you know. It’s best if you write the book and leave the country.”

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 28, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,752 words)

‘The Truth of Life’: Paula Fox on the Re- (Re-) Release of Her 1970 Novel

Sari Botton talks to Paula Fox about Fox’s 1970 novel “Desperate Characters.”

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 27, 2015
Length: 5 minutes (1,250 words)

Desperate Characters

An excerpt from Paula Fox’s 1970 novel: Status-conscious Sophie and Otto Bentwood attend a dinner party in Brooklyn Heights in the late sixties, shortly after Sophie sustains a bite on her hand from a stray cat.

Author: Paula Fox
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 27, 2015
Length: 16 minutes (4,046 words)