Everyone laughs at how ridiculous makeover scenes are, but these swift internal metamorphoses aren’t much better.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Shelved: Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
The posthumous Buckley industry began with this problematic album, proof that the people who control a musician’s estate don’t always have his music in mind.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2019: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Our top picks of the year, all in one place.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Summer
Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.
Posted inNonfiction
Those Limits Were Not Hindrances: An Interview with Megan Pugh
How a writer worked hard to understand one of American music’s most mysterious performers while protecting his past, and art.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces
Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Story
Faith and Reproductive Justice Are Not in Opposition
Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Story
Memory and the Lost Cause
An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.
