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Why Our Kids Need to Learn About Residential Schools
On how Canadians and parents in particular, need to first educate themselves, and then their children on Residential Schools: Canada’s cultural genocide. As a nation, we need to learn the individual stories of people like Phyllis Webstad, Gladys Chapman, and Chanie Wenjack, and about how the government partnered with the Catholic church to remove Indigenous […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Laws of the Awards Podium Protest
Stars are increasingly using Hollywood awards podiums as sites of protest, but few of them are men, and even fewer are white men.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
Longreads Is Teaming Up with The Stranger to Cover the Inauguration and Protests
We’re teaming up with The Stranger to cover the presidential inauguration and protests in Washington, D.C.
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 inReading List
Stories to Read in 2019
A dozen exceptional stories from 2018 that deserve our ongoing attention.
Posted inBlog Post, Media, Nonfiction
‘The Grexit Is Upon Us’: Graydon Carter Departs Vanity Fair
The editor is ending his quarter-century-long turn at the helm of Vanity Fair.
Posted inArts & Culture
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.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Highlight, Quotes
The Unbearable Blandness of Water
Water companies go to impressive lengths to distinguish their tasteless product from their competitors’ tasteless product.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quote Posts
The Roots of Cowboy Music: ‘This Is the Music We Made. This Is the Land We Made.’
Oakland writer Carvell Wallace travels to Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and reflects on what it means to be black and American.
