Learning from Perimenopause and a Kpop Idol

Struggling with fluctuating hormones, Wendy Gan is inspired by the musician Mino to stop muting herself and return to writing.

Author: Wendy Gan
Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 30, 2019
Length: 18 minutes (4,746 words)

A Woman’s Work: Till Death Do Us Part

In the fifth installment of her illustrated essay series, New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson considers the emotional and physical labor required of women as their loved ones die.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 28, 2019
Length: 25 minutes (6,450 words)

Book of Lamentations

In a collaboration between Longreads and Columbia University Journalism School’s The Delacorte Review, Michael Shapiro returns to Israel after 35 years to visit a grave and find a country.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 28, 2019
Length: 28 minutes (7,073 words)

Frenzied Woman

Cinelle Barnes considers how the chaos and discipline of dance kept the disparate parts of her being stitched together.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 25, 2019
Length: 15 minutes (3,929 words)

My Year on a Shrinking Island

Former baker Michael Mount explores the interplay of community, cookie dough and changing terrain on Martha’s Vineyard

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 25, 2019
Length: 24 minutes (6,236 words)

I’m 72. So What?

Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 23, 2019
Length: 21 minutes (5,425 words)

You Talk Real Good

Alison Stine confronts the ways in which being hard of hearing has made her job search more difficult.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 21, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,469 words)

Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism

Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 18, 2019
Length: 17 minutes (4,426 words)

Old Dudes on Skateboards

The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 15, 2019
Length: 35 minutes (8,980 words)

Happiness is Fleeting

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell recalls learning about life’s cycles of hope and disappointment from The Peanuts.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 15, 2019
Length: 13 minutes (3,277 words)