This week, we’re sharing stories from Ethan Watters, Rachel Monroe, Barry Yeoman, Tom Scocca, and Sarah Gailey.
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This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’
This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.
Posted inReading List
It’s Not You, It’s Me: A Breakup Reading List
A late bloomer as far as relationships go, my first encounter with heartbreak came from the track. It was junior year. The district meet: all big Texas sky and girls next to me adjusting hair ties and heat waves shimmering ahead. At that point in my life, I had devoted myself entirely to running. I […]
Posted inNonfiction
“What Do I Know To Be True?”: Emma Copley Eisenberg on Truth in Nonfiction, Writing Trauma, and The Dead Girl Newsroom
“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.”
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Sometimes the Story Finds You: An Interview With Rachel Monroe
The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
When the Amber Alert System Fails: An Abduction on Navajo Land
It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Monroe, Jianan Qian, Rene Ebersole, Adi Robertson, and Kyle Chayka.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lili Loofbourow, Rachel Monroe, Benjamin Weiser, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Megan Greenwell.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2018: Investigative Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.
Posted inQuotes
Wherever You Go, There You Are. Charles Manson is There, Too.
Do we carry pieces of our younger selves with us, even as we grow and change?
