Eleven women writers on this apocryphal publishing milestone.
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The Longreads 2019 Holiday Gift Book Guide
Let Longreads help you with your holiday shopping! We’ve made a catalog of books we featured in 2019 that we think would make great gifts for everyone on your list.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Happily Never After
By protecting ourselves and no one else, we destroy ourselves along with everyone else.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
The Science of Dreaming
Science journalist Alice Robb on why we need to take our dreams seriously.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Writing
Why Fiction Haunts Us: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on His Ghosts
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about how ghosts and authors of fiction share a similar role in today’s culture.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates; Nikole Hannah-Jones; Mark Collette, David Hunn, and Mike Hixenbaugh; Natalie Kitroeff and Victoria Kim; and Robert Minto.
Posted inNonfiction
A Once and Future Beef
Beef is a major culprit of the climate crisis, but if you want to consider beef’s future, then look to its past. The industry’s tactics have not changed as much as you might think.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
A Survey of My Right Arm
Why couldn’t this ailing appendage get over itself? Diagnosing a mysterious malady.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure
On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
One Nation, Under God, With Liberty and Justice for Some
Although a lot about Donald Trump seemed antithetical to conservative Christianity, he got a larger percentage of the Evangelical vote than Bush, Sr., Reagan, or Carter. Why?
