‘To Be Well’: An Unmothered Woman’s Search for Real Love

After years of strife with her mother, Vanessa Mártir finds unconditional love in a new, tender relationship.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 27, 2019
Length: 17 minutes (4,435 words)

Thumbing a Ride: What I Learned from Siskel and Ebert

A personal essay in which Dipti S. Barot pays homage to the two irreplaceable voices who informed her love of good movies.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 26, 2019
Length: 10 minutes (2,634 words)

This Is How You Lose Your Mind

In this personal essay, Dani Fleischer recalls how a lifetime of perfectionism led her down a path of self-destruction.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 22, 2019
Length: 10 minutes (2,731 words)

My Brown Dad Voted for Trump

A personal essay in which Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

Author: Anjoli Roy
Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 20, 2019
Length: 27 minutes (6,945 words)

The Spiritual Path at Fat Camp

After a ten-year relationship ends painfully, Mona Kirschner finds herself searching for emotional and physical healing at a weight loss center in Brazil.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 8, 2019
Length: 20 minutes (5,102 words)

California Burning

A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.

Author: Tessa Love
Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 7, 2019
Length: 17 minutes (4,384 words)

The Art of Losing Friends and Alienating People

Laura Lippman, admittedly a rotten friend, is bummed by the ways in which friendships end as one gets older.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 6, 2019
Length: 16 minutes (4,147 words)

The Name Change Dilemma

Hannah Howard considers tradition, identity, and love as she navigates the decision whether to keep her name after her wedding.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 1, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,420 words)

Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes: On Novelist Nettie Jones and the Madness of ‘Fish Tales’

Edited by Toni Morrison, the 1983 novel ‘Fish Tales’ by Nettie Jones was supposed to set the literary world on fire. It didn’t.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 29, 2019
Length: 23 minutes (5,959 words)

Can We Ever Make It Suntory Time Again?

You can never drink the same whisky twice.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 29, 2019
Length: 23 minutes (5,939 words)