Thousands of people in the U.S.’s all-volunteer military are transgender.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Cabin
In a tiny, remote Utah town, Lavinia Spalding learns the difference between longing and belonging.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
Vladimir Nabokov’s Other Favorite Crime
While the Sally Horner case gave ‘Lolita’ its main character, the Edward Grammer case gave the book an almost perfect murder.
Posted inReading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector Will Survive With or Without America
Despite president Trump’s desire to build a wall and revise NAFTA, the godfather of Mexico’s manufacturing sector said they will survive.
Posted inNonfiction, Sports, Story
A Shot at Glory
For the first time in 24 years, there are no NHL players at the Olympics, offering a rare opportunity for a group of journeymen from a nation that claims hockey as its game.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Celebrating and Surviving in North Korea
Interviews with defectors also suggest that North Koreans are not serious consumers of marijuana. The drug of choice is, in fact, something much more pernicious: crystal meth. Meth, known colloquially as eoreum or bingdu (both mean “ice”, a name by which the drug is also known in the US) is a drug unfortunately suited to […]
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Sun Never Sets on Oppression and Dominance, or Why You’re More Aztec Than You Think
Aztec priests ripped out people’s hearts daily as a sacrifice to the sun, and for Sam Kriss, the contemporary West might be a lot more like them that we think.
Posted inQuotes
‘Do You Want to Be Matched?’
A one-man matchmaking machine, catering to single Koreans and their concerned family members.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
