The most remarkable thing about Patience Worth wasn’t that she was dead. It was that all she wanted to do was write books.
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The Enduring Myth of a Lost Live Iggy and the Stooges Album
In 1973, Columbia Records professionally recorded the infamous band for a planned concert record. Columbia never released it. Maybe they never recorded it.
We’re Going Through Hell, and Men Need to Join Us There
The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.
Longreads Best of 2017: Political Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in political writing.
How Refugees Die
Wars and heightened border security have created a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.
The Classroom Origins of Toxic Masculinity
It’s a relatively new term for a concept as old as time.
How To Hide An Empire
Daniel Immerwahr says studying the history of the Greater United States opens our eyes to how “racism has shaped the actual country itself. The legal borders of the country, but also the borders of the heart.”
Revisiting My Grandfather’s Garden
During a return trip to Tehran, Mojgan Ghazirad searches for her childhood home and witnesses the damage U.S. sanctions have brought to Iranian lives.
Baring the Bones of the Lost Country: The Last Paleontologist in Venezuela
In light of recent events in crisis-ridden Venezuela, its last vertebrate paleontologist puts together key pieces of the baffling puzzle that the country has become in the past couple of decades.
The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List
Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
