This week, we’re sharing stories from Seema Jilani, Katy Kelleher, Carina del Valle Schorske, Martin Padgett, and Ben Lindbergh.
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Posted inBooks, Culture, Feature, Highlight, investigations, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
When Refugee Families are Separated, Women Carry the Burden
The story of a Somali family uprooted by war and separated by America’s broken refugee resettlement system — and the siblings who brought them back together.
Posted inStory
The State We Are In: Neither Here, There, nor in Heaven
On vaccine privilege in America and COVID-19 inequities in India.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Writing
Neighborhood Watch: The Strange Aftermath of a ‘Karen’ Encounter
In a progressive New Jersey community, racial solidarity is complicated.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’
“There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”
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.
Posted inNonfiction
The Cult That Promises to Cure Addiction
For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from James Carroll, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Ben Steverman, Eva Holland, and Ian Brown.
