Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in a time when Black writers began breaking the white ceiling.
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Shelved: Brian Wilson’s Adult/Child
Music from the time after the good vibrations ended.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story, Unapologetic Women
Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre
Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
The World of Nora Ephron: A Reading List
Seven stories about the journalist and director, on the 20th anniversary of the release of the film, “You’ve Got Mail.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Pop-Ups Took Over America’s Restaurants
“High turnover is now a virtue” in the restaurant business, “which means the latest food trend isn’t an ingredient or a cuisine; it’s a length of time.” GQ sends Ryan Bradley to eat his way across Los Angeles in an attempt to help readers (and his 96-year-old grandmother, Bam-Bam) get to the bottom of our […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Author Notes, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Selling Vintage Records in Tokyo
Listening to music with a Tokyo record store owner forges a deeper bond than any shared language.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Cast by Chronic Illness Into a Limiting Role
Maris Kreizman dreamed of attending performing arts camp, but she ended up homesick at diabetes camp instead.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville Chapter Three: A Clan Not to Cross
A look into the Bundy family’s history reveals how they began to distrust the federal government. From nuclear testing programs in the 1950s to the decades-long Sagebrush Rebellion starting in the 1970s, Cliven Bundy came to believe that the government was out to get him and became emboldened to fight back.
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The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under? A lot — and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that.
