Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.
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Best of 2022: All of our No. 5 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number five in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
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National Parks: A Reading List
Jacqueline Alnes considers the wealth, privilege, racism, and violence inherent in our relationships with U.S. National Parks.
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The Thriving eBay Cheeto Community
Uniquely shaped Cheetos go for big bucks online, but is anyone really buying?
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Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
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They’re Good Mangoes, Mao
The fruit took on cult status in China after Mao gifted his workers a box of mangoes sent from Pakistan.
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Find Yourself
From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.
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The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class
“Apparently, Mao didn’t like fruit. It was an easy re-gift.”
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A Mystery Wrapped in an Engima, Then Shoved Under the Desk
Waste paper baskets: deeply symbolic, paradoxical items. Who knew?
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Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
