Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
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Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Reading List
Seven Stories About the Science Behind Fast Food
Stories about how fast food co-opted science and technology to create more craveable products.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
I Want to Persuade You to Care About Other People
After changing her conservative grandfather’s mind about affirmative action, Danielle Tcholakian commits to trying to get through to people whose politics are very different from her own.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Father of Migrants
“When it comes to the human body, everything can be trafficked. Migrants are a product in a system that breaks them down into lucrative parts, often until there is nothing left.”
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2016: Science Writing
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in science writing.
Posted inFeature, Story
When it Takes Being Thrown to Learn How to Land
An aerialist flies off her bike on the Manhattan Bridge, altering the course of her journey.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park
Mabel Rosenheck looks back at a group of friends, and a music festival on the Jersey Shore, that came along when she needed them most.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Writing Our America
“Despite the headlines that came after the election calling this country ‘Trump’s America’—and there were many—I won’t call it that, or see it that way. And regardless of your politics I’ll ask you to join me. This is our America. It’s our America to write in, and our America to write.”
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now
Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
