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I Got Hacked So You Don’t Have To

by Krista Stevens April 25, 2017October 19, 2022

It happened to John Podesta. It happened to Paul Manafort’s daughter: a type of computer hack called “spearphishing.” Spearphishing differs from typically clumsy mass-mail attempts to gain your online credentials. Social engineers target you alone — masquerading as someone you know — using your natural proclivity to trust against you to gain access to your […]

On Happiness: A Reading List

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 20, 2017March 19, 2025

A reading list on happiness to celebrate March 20—or International Day of Happiness.

Reading List

Longreads Best of 2017: Crime Reporting

by Longreads December 29, 2017October 19, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Weight Loss Does Not Cure Depression: How the World’s Heaviest Man Lost it All

by Krista Stevens March 10, 2017October 19, 2022

Paul Mason lost 700 lbs. after bariatric surgery and finds happiness elusive; dramatic weight loss does nothing to treat the underlying depression and emotional trauma that caused him to eat to excess in the first place.

Nonfiction, Quotes

“Modern Life Is Not Violent Enough,” Said Nobody — But They Thought It

by michelleweber February 10, 2017October 19, 2022

This excerpt from Chuck Klosterman’s book “But What If We’re Wrong?” is nominally about football, and violence, but is also a prescient analysis of U.S. politics.

Will Violence Save Football?

by michelleweber February 7, 2017October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from his book, But What If We’re Wrong?, Chuck Klosterman wonders if the sport that defines America will survive not in spite of its brutality but because of it.