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The 24-Year-Old Coca-Cola Virgin
“If you’re looking for evidence of mass commonality, it doesn’t come cheaper or more convenient than Coke. It’s consumed around 1.9 billion times per day, and distributed everywhere except North Korea and Cuba (for now). Through Coke we all have something in common — Liz Taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows […]
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Cabin
In a tiny, remote Utah town, Lavinia Spalding learns the difference between longing and belonging.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Reluctant Memoirist
Kim spent more than a decade researching and visiting North Korea before writing a book about teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class. Despite the amount of reporting she had done, her publisher decided to market the book as a “memoir,” making it difficult for Kim to find recognition as a investigative […]
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 inBlog Post, Current Events, Reading List
A Transgender-Military Reading List
Thousands of people in the U.S.’s all-volunteer military are transgender.
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 […]
