An essay examining women’s long-standing conditioning away from owning and expressing anger, instead often sublimating their rage in sadness, which has historically been more acceptable.
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Location, Location, Location: Six Stories on Moving House
Jacqueline Alnes explores identity and privilege in these six stories about moving house.
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Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?
In her first cover piece for the New York Times magazine, Jenna Wortham profiles RuPaul, making note of the ways in which he — and his 9-year-old reality competition TV show — have had to evolve along with shifting understandings of gender, and the politics around it.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts, Sports
Editor’s Roundtable: Gossip, Dirt, and Reality (Podcast)
Longreads editors discuss stories in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Kotaku, and The Globe and Mail.
Posted inStory
Naked City
Here, everyone hurries but no one arrives, everyone shows up but no one gets in, everyone’s a member but no one belongs.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
And They Do Not Stop Until Dusk
I’ve never known what it means to feel Jewish, but I still have a past — I have György Román, who painted dreams and saw nightmares.
Posted inNonfiction
Edible Complex
Never eat pot chocolate on a third date, and other lessons about love.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Writing
Miami: A Beginning
Jessica Lynne remembers a long distance love affair that began in Miami and the Billie Holiday song that kept her company through the relationship’s transitions.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story
Will Amazon Finally Kill New York?
A New Yorker reads “Seasonal Associate” in the age of HQ2.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
