This week, we’re sharing stories from Ian Frisch, Niela Orr, Alison Fensterstock, Jill Lepore, and Austin Carr.
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An Unenviable Week of Firsts in Seattle Under COVID-19
“We didn’t know it yet, but we were living in a kind of laboratory of the country’s future. We were the first.”
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Take Two Stem Cell Injections and Don’t Call Me Until After I Cash Your $10,000 Cheque
What don’t these stem cell snake-oil salespeople have? Any science to prove their claims or any scruples about preying on the vulnerable.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Rachel Sugar, Kate Knibbs, Mark Arax, and Anna Wiener.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories
Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editors Roundtable: Violence of Men, Money, and Space (Podcast)
Catherine Cusick, Kelly Stout, Ethan Chiel, and Aaron Gilbreath discuss stories by Wil S. Hylton, Josephine Livingstone, Jesse Barron, and Rivka Galchen.
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The Optics of Opportunity
Hafizah Geter sets the record straight on outrageous displays of racism and white privilege in a literary fellowship she took part in, after The New Yorker frames the story “as a quirky tale of wealth and nepotism.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Did One Young Scientist Discover the Paleontology Pot of Gold?
Answers to some of paleontology’s most frustrating questions might lay in the dirt in North Dakota, but can the scientist who discovered them be believed?
