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I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 29, 2021October 19, 2022

“After 18 months of pandemic parenting isolation, the writer Jon Mooallem knew just where the cure might lie: a minor-league baseball game in eastern Washington.”

Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 1, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Becca Andrews, Désiré Nimubona, Jon Mooallem, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Kathryn Borel.

An illustration of the world with a lit fuse.
Posted inReading List

Tragedy in the Making: A Reading List About Unnatural Disasters

by Colleen Hagerty May 23, 2023May 26, 2023

A list of stories that dig into the “ingredients” of recent natural hazard-related disasters.

Posted inScience & Nature

Longreads Best of 2019: Science and Nature

by Longreads December 12, 2019October 13, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in science and nature.

Posted inBooks

This Week In Books: Too Small For the Occasion

by Dana Snitzky March 31, 2020December 16, 2022

He screamed, and I mean really screamed, to no one and to every one of us who was peeking at him out our windows: “What are we even doing out here!!??”

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Near-Death Experience as Training to Care for the Dying

by Sari Botton January 11, 2017October 19, 2022

In The New York Times Magazine, Jon Mooallem has a moving profile of doctor B.J. Miller, a triple amputee since an accident in his sophomore year of college, who’s now developing something he’s calling The Center for Dying and Living.

Posted inEditor's Pick

One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die

by Sari Botton January 4, 2017October 19, 2022

A profile of Dr. B.J. Miller, a triple amputee whose own near-death experience in college–and his return to life afterward–inform his approach to palliative care.

Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized

My Favorite Animal Longreads of 2016

by Pam Mandel December 19, 2016October 19, 2022

In November 2015, I adopted a dog. Harley. These 12 pounds of mostly shelter-raised animal cracked open the harder parts of my heart and I found myself sobbing into my coffee, almost daily, while reading the latest stories about rescue dogs. I’d gone so far as to set a Google Alert on “rescue dog,” and […]

Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized

My Favorite Animal Longreads of 2016

by Pam Mandel December 19, 2016October 19, 2022

In November 2015, I adopted a dog. Harley. These 12 pounds of mostly shelter-raised animal cracked open the harder parts of my heart and I found myself sobbing into my coffee, almost daily, while reading the latest stories about rescue dogs. I’d gone so far as to set a Google Alert on “rescue dog,” and […]

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

On Barbs and Demogorgons: A Stranger Things Reading List

by benhuberman August 17, 2016October 19, 2022

After the binge-watching comes the binge-reading.

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