Jodi Ettenberg is the founder of Legal Nomads, a contributing editor to Longreads and Travelreads, and the author of The Food Traveler’s Handbook. It is always hard to narrow down my favourites from a full 12 months of longreading, so here are five—but certainly not all—of the standouts from the last year. They’re food-themed, mainly […]
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Everything to Live For
Jennifer Mendelsohn | Washingtonian | June 1998 | 36 minutes (8,995 words) Jennifer Mendelsohn is the “Modern Family” columnist for Baltimore Style magazine. A former People magazine special correspondent and Slate columnist, her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Tablet, Medium, McSweeney’s and Jezebel. This story first appeared in the June […]
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Famous Cases of Journalistic Fraud: A Reading List
Washington Post Investigation of Janet Cooke’s Fabrications Bill Green | Washington Post Ombudsman | April 19, 1981 In 1980, Janet Cooke made up a story about an 8-year-old heroin addict, won the Pulitzer Prize for it, then, two days later, gave it back. Here’s the internal investigation of how the Post leaned on her to […]
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Longreads Best of 2013: Here Are All 49 of Our No. 1 Story Picks From This Year
Every single story that was chosen as No. 1 this year.
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The Justin Bieber of Bullfighting
The Justin Bieber of Bullfighting “The bull is my best friend,” Michelito said the night before. “He’s the one I’m always thinking about, always focusing on.” But it’s hard to square that with what he said next. “There is no real relationship between a bullfighter and a bull, because one is a rational animal while […]
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Joe Spring & Chris Keyes: Our Top 5 Longreads of 2010
Joe Spring and Chris Keyes are editors for Outside Magazine. *** The Most Isolated Man on the Planet, Slate, Monte Reel (Aug. 20, 2010) He’s alone in the Brazilian Amazon, but for how long? The Last Patrol, The Atlantic, Brian Mockenhaupt (November 2010) A veteran unit patrolling the Devil’s Playground hands off its territory to […]
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Juli Weiner: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
Juli Weiner blogs for Vanity Fair. *** These are the pieces I sent out to friends with the all-caps subject line, “THIS.” These are the pieces I come back to when I’m looking to improve my own writing. These are the pieces I’ll be re-reading well into 2011. Jon Ronson: And God Created Controversy, The […]
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Peter Smith: The Best Food Longreads of the Year
Peter Smith: The Best Food Longreads of the Year Stories from Wired, Conservation Magazine, Edible Geography, Saveur, Slate, National Geographic, GQ and Prospect.
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The Stutterer: How He Makes His Voice Heard
The Stutterer: How He Makes His Voice Heard Today, I am still being jolted, and the jagged terrain behind bears the track marks of my own innumerable small humiliations. In the seventh grade: A substitute asks the class to read out loud, and when I stumble over my first sentence, she inquires of the other […]
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motherjones: Inside the “lavish,” “debauched” lifestyle of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea. Beyond the oil money, all-night parties, Playboy bunnies, and 15,000-square-foot Malibu mansion, there’s the larger question of whether Teodoro has used shell companies to funnel $100 million into the United States. Click here for deets and […]
