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Fiction, Highlight, Quotes

Sit Back, Relax, and Try Not To Think About the Hole We’re Making In Your Skull

by michelleweber February 3, 2020October 19, 2022

You can understand how the dura mater connects to the arachnoid mater, but that doesn’t mean you understand the mind.

Books, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage

by Longreads October 16, 2019January 20, 2023

Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

Nonfiction

Renovating a Family

by Christine Kalafus December 27, 2019December 30, 2022

After her husband’s infidelity, Christine Kalafus re-architected her marriage. Now she needs to let her son in on the plans.

Feature

Whatever Happened to ______ ?

by Longreads January 15, 2020October 18, 2022

Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.

Feature

Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks

by Longreads December 17, 2025December 19, 2025

Every story we selected for the number one slot in our weekly newsletter, all in one place.

Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

The Name Change Dilemma

by Hannah Howard November 1, 2019January 13, 2023

Hannah Howard considers tradition, identity, and love as she navigates the decision whether to keep her name after her wedding.

‘I Believe in Love’: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Final Year, In Her Own Words

by Sari Botton January 9, 2020March 28, 2023

Memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel was working on this, her final personal essay, when she passed away on January 7th, 2020 from metastatic breast cancer. In the piece she reveals that as her health was declining, her marriage was unraveling, and that she was still wrestling with new information her mother finally revealed a couple of years […]