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Nonfiction, Story

Long Live Grim Fandango

by Longreads January 29, 2015October 19, 2022

The greatest adventure game ever made returns from the dead.

Nonfiction, Reading List

Mike Nichols: 1931-2014

by heymarkarms November 20, 2014October 19, 2022

Mike Nichols, the beloved director of stage and screen—from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, to Barefoot in the Park and Working Girl— died Nov. 19, 2014 at the age of 83. Here are four pieces on the life of the artist.

Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews

Giving Visibility to the Invisible: An Interview With Photographer Ruddy Roye

by Longreads February 12, 2015October 19, 2022

“I want to introduce white America to people who they might never have met, and I want them to fall in love too.”

Member Pick, Nonfiction

Budd & Leni

by Longreads January 15, 2015October 19, 2022

The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Member Pick, Nonfiction

Autistic and Searching for a Home

by Longreads December 24, 2014October 19, 2022

Between jail and the hospital, Savannah Shannon’s life is in limbo.

Nonfiction, Reading List

‘Yours Lovingly’: A Collection of Stories About Writing Letters

by mikedang August 27, 2014October 19, 2022

A man writes to a convicted killer. Fan letters to a troubled country star. Letters by parents. Here are five stories about the letters we write to one another.

Reading List

Oh, the Humanities! A Reading List Pertaining to the English Major

by Emily Perper July 20, 2014October 19, 2022

In college, I rearranged my majors and minors, all in the humanities, for years. I loved everything. Finally, I majored in English. It was fate—second-grade me was constantly in trouble for sneaking books under her desk. Majoring in English was both the joy and bane of my life. I struggled with a Faulkner-heavy Southern Lit course, […]