An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.
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“We All Had the Same Acid Flashback at the Same Time”: The New American Cuisine
How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
The End of ‘Rolling Stone’ As We Know It
Jann Wenner created a magazine that lasted for 50 years because he understood nostalgia sells.
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Unreal Estate: A Reading List About Our Shifting Vision of Home
In an age of economic and political instability, what do the spaces we dwell in say about us?
A Remarkable Child
My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Death by Gentrification: The Killing That Shamed San Francisco Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian | March 21, 2016 |Â 21 minutes (5,317 words) […]
The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.

