Hannah Howard considers tradition, identity, and love as she navigates the decision whether to keep her name after her wedding.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Writing
Miami: A Beginning
Jessica Lynne remembers a long distance love affair that began in Miami and the Billie Holiday song that kept her company through the relationship’s transitions.
Posted inNonfiction
Unleashed in Paris
As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On Owning Many Books
“I know that book collections become a pantomime of erudition, or a flex, as I often think when walking past the lit windows of tony brownstones in Brooklyn and catch sight of a large built-in bookcase. And yet when I have ever passed one without the tug of desire?”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Johnny Rotten, My Mom, and Me
Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with the poverty, violence, and despair both outside and inside their Brooklyn home.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Albatross People
Navigating distance and time in the age of uncertainty.
Posted inScience & Nature
Longreads Best of 2019: Science and Nature
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in science and nature.
Posted inNonfiction
The Coastal Shelf
June Amelia Rose remembers coming out in her youth to a turbulent family as her mother died of cancer.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
A Vor Never Sleeps
The shadowy world of Russian organized crime in America.
