What happens when your chickens are killed by predators protected by law? At The New York Times Magazine, Wyatt Williams reports on the farming hardships posed by bald eagles and what one family farm in Bluffon, Georgia, is trying to do about it.
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Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica
A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Red Caddy
The first biography of Edward Abbey in a generation is closer to a memoir about friendship between two crusty desert rats.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘How We Became a Prison Family’
A new first chapter from author Patricia Engel’s novel, The Veins of the Ocean.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio
A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
Where Have You Hidden the Cholera?
In Mozambique and around the world — and throughout history — cholera outbreaks have caused riots. Why? And what does it have to do with bicycles?
Posted inNonfiction
How to Get Away with Spying for the Enemy
How does someone get away with helping a foreign adversary? Writer Sarah Laskow digs into the gonzo story of an American acquitted of spying for the Soviets—even after he confessed to it.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Iraqi Special Forces Fight to Liberate Mosul
For The New Yorker, Luke Mogelson embeds himself with the Nineveh Province swat team.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine
In 1945, Les Temps modernes shocked the world with its pessimism and grim determination, and catapulted its founders into intellectual superstardom.
