In the New Yorker, memoirist Mary Karr recounts a recent, casual sexual assault by a “crotchgrabber” on the street in Manhattan.
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Posted inBusiness, investigations, Science & Nature
The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care
Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.
Posted inBusiness, investigations, Science & Nature, Story
The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care
Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Quotes
What Alex Jones and Amanda Chantal Bacon Have in Common
A new profile of the Moon Juice entrepreneur reveals how the hippie left intersects with the conspiracist right.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
Multi-Level Marketing’s Feminine Mystique: A Reading List
The commodification of female friendship began in the suburban living room. Today, it’s booming online.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
RNC vs. DNC: A Reading List Examining the Conventions
Revisiting the political conventions.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List
The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Posted inEditor's Pick, First Chapters, Nonfiction
Mourning the Low-Rent, Weirdo-Filled East Village of Old
An excerpt of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Jeremiah Moss.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Reading List
Failed Promises: A ‘Bachelorette’ Reading List
This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.
