With the decision to take his 13-year-old daughter on a dangerous drive to Peshawar, Diana Whitney’s charismatic father became a regular fallible human in her eyes.
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How Much Would You Endure to Flee Persecution?
Now that Europe welcomes migrants no longer, asylum seekers are making nearly impossible journeys through South America to the United States.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Walking Across California
To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later.
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Records on Bone
One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.
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Love’s Road Home
A wedding day postscript to Chivers’ Pulitzer winning story about Sam Siatta, a Marine Corps veteran of the war in Afghanistan who returned home with PTSD and landed in prison after committing a crime he says he doesn’t remember.
Posted inMedia, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
What Happened Onboard the ‘Nautilus’?
May Jeong searches for answers after the death of her friend, journalist Kim Wall.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from C.J. Chivers, Sheelah Kolhatkar, Libby Copeland, Amanda Petrusich, and Bryan Menegus.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘Women Can Be Required To Wear Something That’s Painful.’
Summer Brennan talks about femininity and suffering, beauty and biology, and the startlingly dark turn she found herself taking when writing about women and power in her new book ‘High Heel.’
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Longreads Best of 2018: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
I Must Be One of the Best, Because I’m Not One of the Worst
Iraq War veteran Phil Klay reckons with his own complicity.
