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.

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Published: Nov 24, 2013

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.

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Published: Nov 20, 2013

Reading List: Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal

New story picks from Emily Perper, featuring VQR, The Daily Beast and The New Yorker.

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Published: Nov 17, 2013

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.

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Published: Nov 13, 2013

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.

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Published: Nov 10, 2013

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.

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Published: Nov 6, 2013

Reading List: What We Believe

This week’s reading list explores religious freedom and our different beliefs.

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Published: Nov 3, 2013

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.

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Published: Oct 31, 2013

Reading List: The Culture of Cosplayers

This week’s picks from Emily includes stories from Kotaku, Racialicious, Buzzfeed, and Autostraddle.

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Published: Oct 27, 2013

‘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.

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Published: Oct 24, 2013
Length: 36 minutes (9,133 words)