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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, profile, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Writing

The Alarmist: Is One of the Pandemic’s Loudest Scientific Voices Helping or Hurting Public Health?

by Seyward Darby December 8, 2020October 19, 2022

Meet Eric Feigl-Ding, the town crier of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes

Graduate School is Wonderful and We Are All Very, Very Happy

by michelleweber September 5, 2018October 19, 2022

Avital Ronell is both product and perpetuator of an abusive academy.

Back of a nun's habit
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 31, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Christine Kenneally, Desiree Stennett and Lisa Rowan, Andrea Long Chu, Victoria Blanco, and David Kushner.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Big Lie

by benhuberman September 6, 2018October 19, 2022

How the story of an ambitious chemistry professor in Colorado who forged a letter and lost everything.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 7, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lyz Lenz, Chris Sweeney, Megan Zahneis and Jack Stripling, Davey Alba, and Christopher Borrelli.

Posted inReading List

Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath June 24, 2020November 25, 2022

Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.

a water tower at texas A&M university painted with the words "welcome to aggieland"
Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes

The Great Alt-Right Pile-On of Tommy Curry

by michelleweber July 28, 2017October 19, 2022

“The goal, however, was the same as ever: fear. And it worked.”

Posted inReading List

But You Look Fine: A Reading List About Disabilities, Accommodations, and School

by Jacqueline Alnes April 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Jacqueline Alnes brings us six stories on disability and discrimination in higher education.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 28, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Steve Kolowich; Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg; Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Carolyn Murnick; and Jamie Lauren Keiles.

Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story

The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

by Longreads April 16, 2019October 19, 2022

In the story of one Mexican-American woman’s life, we can see the whole tragic story of the US-Mexico border’s transformation from a simple chain-link fence to a humanitarian crisis.

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