This week, we’re sharing stories from Matthew Shaer, John Woodrow Cox, Bethany McLean, Robin Wright, and David Sedaris.
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Longreads Best of 2017: Crime Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Caity Weaver, Marisa Meltzer, Jiayang Fan, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Jeff Maysh.
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Nyet to Harm Reduction: Russia’s HIV Epidemic
In Yekaterinburg, the fourth largest city in Russia, one in 50 are HIV positive, half of which are due to intravenous drug use.
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The Inward Empire
A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.
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Chelsea Manning Stays in the Picture
The New York Times styles Manning for her first profile—but she’s already in charge of her own image.
Posted inBooks, History, Story
When the Movies Went West
Scorned by stage actors and mocked by the theater-going upper classes, filmmakers nevertheless developed a bold new art form — but they needed better weather.
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The Unlikely Friendship of Long Ma and Bac Duong
When taxi driver Long Ma agreed to drive Bac Duong home, he had no idea he was about to be taken hostage by three escaped inmates.
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The Case for Dungeons & Dragons
I was never a Dungeons and Dragons person, but as a nerd, seems like they’ve always been nearby. I would not have expected a Venn diagram overlapping the D&D nerds I know — delightful, gentle weirdos who like elves and other imaginary creatures — with high security prisoners. Elisabeth de Cleer wrote about one such […]
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Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s
In my teens I was upset that I was too young to go out with any of the boys in my favorite bands. Now they’re all with women who weren’t even born when I had that thought.
