After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
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Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On the Other Hand
Twenty-five years after Jim Henson’s death, a glimpse of the man who kept his most iconic puppet singing: Steve Whitmire. A new Longreads Exclusive from Jon Irwin and Kill Screen magazine.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Pregnant, then Ruptured
After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness
S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Long Live Grim Fandango
The greatest adventure game ever made returns from the dead.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Judging Books By Their Covers
Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Take Me Home
While teaching English to communist party officials in post-war Laos, Kathryn Kefauver Goldberg reflects on silence and the legacy of trauma.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Itch and the Touch
Families are complicated. Caring for Grandpa John was even more so.
