“I learned to adore the way he sidled against me and to hate his momentary affection, just as he learned to detach from me in weariness and depend on me in hunger. Days with him were a quick education in a cat’s existence.” I once spent a year shadowing a musician I loved, whose body […]
Five stories demonstrating how the green rush nurtured the best and worst that U.S. capitalism had to offer.
“Murder is what landed Davis in court, but the victim wasn’t in the drug game. She was a single mother who had filed a brutality complaint against Davis. The next day, he ordered a hit man to kill her.” Congratulations, we’ve made it to the fifth month of 2024! For you, in addition to our […]
Every story changes our mind in some small way. They’re already in implicit conversation with one another, and our “Year in Reading” series acknowledges that.
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
We like to think Longreads furnishes more than simply emergency reading, and that’s certainly true this week.
Germany’s Black Forest faces a future of transformation. So do the people who have lived there for centuries.
“When the media covered women in the grunge and alternative scene, it treated them like a genre unto itself. This genre, though, received almost no in-depth profiles or features.” Books are one of the great joys in my life. The other is music. I’ve been following singer songwriter Neko Case since 1997, after picking up […]
“All of it began with the call for help at 50 Child Street.”
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