Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.
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Posted inCulture, Story, Unapologetic Women
The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency
What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Ian Frisch, Niela Orr, Alison Fensterstock, Jill Lepore, and Austin Carr.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Making of a Black Fortune
America’s first black millionaires were born into slavery — and built wealth alongside political power.
Posted inNonfiction
Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral
In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
Querida Angelita
The Mexican teenager who became one Mexican-American family’s maid taught a young woman that el oltro lado, the other side, is as much about class and good fortune as it is an international border.
Posted inFeature
Under the Knife
Margot Harris grapples with guilt following a labiaplasty procedure.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Reading List
1000 Days of Trump
Where do we start? How long do you have?
Posted inStory
Still Waters
The muted response to Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters” is depressingly similar to our culture’s muted response to climate change
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, History, Nonfiction, Story
The Corpse Rider
“I could see the ghosts,” recalled Lafcadio Hearn about his early childhood. Late in life, he became a celebrated chronicler of Japan’s folk tales: stories of strange demons and lingering visitations.
