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‘Exposed as the Mother Who Cannot Weave’: Grace Loh Prasad on Family and Community

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 9, 2022November 14, 2024

In a recent essay, Grace Loh Prasad muses on motherhood, the bond of family, and finding community.

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Feature

Tom Cat

by Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen November 6, 2025November 6, 2025

On duality, detachment, and life and death decisions.

Rear view of a boy lying on the floor who is drawing a picture of his two moms

Nonfiction, Reading List, Story

Families Like Ours: A Reading List for the Children of Queer Parents

by Melissa Hart June 28, 2022February 28, 2024

Some of us got to stay with our moms or dads. Others did not.

Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Writing

The Secrets of a Hidden Diary

by Seyward Darby December 4, 2020October 19, 2022

A hidden diary, a love story, and a mystery.

Nonfiction

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 15, 2022October 14, 2022

This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Jason Fagone and Alexandria Bordas, Jennifer Senior, Lachlan Summers, Lupita Limón Corrales, and Anna Wiener.

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Nonfiction

Best of 2023: All of Our Number Five Story Picks

by Longreads December 28, 2023

Each story we chose as our number five piece of the week in 2023, all in one place.

Current Events, Feature, investigations, Nonfiction, Story

Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court

by Gabriel Thompson September 22, 2020February 23, 2024

Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.

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Story

Things That Able Me

by Christy Tending February 2, 2023February 29, 2024

Christy Tending | Longreads | February 2, 2023 | 14 minutes (3,768 words) There are things that able me. A chair. One person speaking to me at a time. Shoes that are not cute, but spare me nerve pain. A hot bath with epsom salts: so hot it would scald most, but my skin is like […]