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Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story

A Very Naughty Little Girl

by Rose George March 10, 2015July 16, 2024

The extraordinary life of Janet Vaughan, who changed our relationship with blood.

Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

A Conversation With Writer Colm Tóibín on the ‘Close Imagining’ of Fiction

by Longreads February 24, 2015October 19, 2022

“A really good idea might come to you at night and seem really wrong in the morning. So you’re always testing things.”

Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Giving Visibility to the Invisible: An Interview With Photographer Ruddy Roye

by Longreads February 12, 2015October 19, 2022

“I want to introduce white America to people who they might never have met, and I want them to fall in love too.”

Nonfiction

‘It’s Yours’: A Short History of the Horde

by Longreads February 4, 2015October 20, 2025

How Ta-Nehisi Coates built the best comment section on the internet—and why it can’t last.

Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story

For the Public Good: The Shameful History of Forced Sterilization in the U.S.

by Longreads November 19, 2014October 19, 2022

“I never figured out why they did that to me.”

Nonfiction, Quotes

Author John Green on the Problem With 'Twilight'

by mikedang May 20, 2014January 25, 2023

John Green is the author of the wildly popular young adult novel The Fault in Our Stars, which remained No. 1 on Amazon in the U.S. and Britain two years after its release. Guardian writer Emma Brockes profiled Green for Intelligent Life this month, and here Green discusses what is problematic about another wildly popular series: […]

Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat

by Automattic June 11, 2013October 19, 2022

An examination of Margaret Thatcher’s life as chronicled in the authorized biography by Charles Moore: “It’s depressing to suppose that fortune favours the people who can keep going longest. But it does. That is one of the clear lessons from the first volume of Charles Moore’s exhaustive and exhausting authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, which […]

Member Pick, Nonfiction

Call It Rape

by Longreads August 5, 2014October 19, 2022

Margot Singer | The Normal School | 2012 | 23 minutes (5,683 words) The Normal SchoolThanks to Margot Singer and The Normal School for sharing this story with the Longreads community.Subscribe to The Normal School * * * Still life with man and gun Three girls are smoking on the back porch of their high […]