Reading List: Religion Gone Extreme
This week’s list by Emily includes stories from The New Republic, Philadelphia magazine, Susan J. Palmer, and Religion Dispatch Magazine.
The Pain of Rural Poverty: Our College Pick
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Here’s this week’s pick.
Reading List: Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal
New story picks from Emily Perper, featuring VQR, The Daily Beast and The New Yorker.
A Former Basketball Star’s New Life in Europe: Our College Pick
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Here’s this week’s pick.
Reading List: Amazing People for Desperate Times
This week’s list from Emily includes stories from BuzzFeed, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, and Left Field Project.
College Longreads Pick: “Nothing Was the Same: On Drake and the White Boy Imaginary” by Sam Rosen, Brown University
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Here’s this week’s pick.
Reading List: What We Believe
This week’s reading list explores religious freedom and our different beliefs.
College Longreads Pick: ‘The End of the Waffle House’ by Jessica Contrera, Indiana University
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Here’s this week’s pick.
Reading List: The Culture of Cosplayers
This week’s picks from Emily includes stories from Kotaku, Racialicious, Buzzfeed, and Autostraddle.
‘Quebrado’: The Life and Death of a Young Activist
As our Longreads Member Drive continues (sign up here to join us), we wanted to share more of our Member Picks with everyone, to show how your financial support helps us find and share outstanding storytelling from the past and present. Today we’re thrilled to feature “Quebrado,” by Jeff Sharlet, a professor at Dartmouth, contributing editor for Rolling Stone and bestselling author. The story was first published in Rolling Stone in 2008 and is featured in Sharlet’s book Sweet Heaven When I Die. Thanks to Sharlet for sharing it with the Longreads community.