This reading list features the five nonfiction nominees for the National Book Awards. The winner be announced on November 18, 2015.
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14 Stories About Love: A Reading List
Revel in all the feels with these 14 (get it?) essays and interviews.
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14 Stories About Love: A Reading List
Revel in all the feels with these 14 (get it?) essays and interviews.
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Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories
Stories that deserved more attention in 2015.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, Backchannel, The New Yorker, Boom, GQ, and the Washingtonian.
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Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi
Novelist Adam Johnson meets Kenji Fujimoto, a man who became the Dear Leader’s cook, confidant, and court jester: “Many people envied me because I was a favorite of Kim Jong-il. At the parties, I poured sake for Shogun-sama, but Shogun-sama also poured sake for me, which was very rare. Every time Shogun-sama said to me, […]
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Longreads Guest Pick: Margaret Ely on 'Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi'
Margaret Ely is a web producer and reporter for The Washington Post. Maybe I was hungry and saw the word “sushi” in the headline, but I was hooked the moment I started reading Adam Johnson’s bizarre, outlandish story about a Japanese chef who served North Korea’s supreme, “dear leader” Kim Jong-il. While it’s known that […]
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The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
An excerpt from Enemies Within, a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman on the NYPD’s secret spying unit: “Police collected the phone numbers and e-mail addresses from the website. One was for Agnes Johnson, a longtime activist based in the Bronx. ‘We were women and mothers who said, “We’re […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle and Readmill users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. 1. Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney Ron Suskind | The New York Times Magazine | March 9, 2014 | 36 minutes (9,118 words) […]
