This week, we’re sharing stories from Tara Roberts, Casey Cep, Benjamin Cassidy, David Alm, and Lacy Warner.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, and Paul Kiel, Arno Kopecky, Isaac Würmann, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, and Laura Spinney.
Insatiable: A Life Without Eating
When my Crohn’s disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
Molly
“Love someone back,” she wrote in a poem that I read the first day I realized I already loved her and always would. “You just begin.” So I began.
Loss, Love, and a Promise Kept
A child presented them with a choice. They talked about it. They made a decision. They followed through. It was, by almost any measure, a fairly ordinary act of parenting. Except for this: Josh is not their son.
Finding Answers about Life and Love in the Mountain Death Zone
“There’s no reflective surfaces when you’re climbing. You’re just who you are.”
Curator Spotlight: Robert Sanchez on Highlighting Notable Storytelling from City Magazines Across the U.S.
The longtime writer at Denver’s 5280 magazine talks about City Reads, the stellar work published by fellow journalists, and the intimate experience of reading thousands of solidarity letters mailed from across the country, demanding justice for Elijah McClain.
Castles in the Sky
“While renovating a house in San Francisco, a couple discovered a diary, hidden away for more than a century. It held a love story—and a mystery.”

