Stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Chabon, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
A Remarkable Child
My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism
The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editorial team at Longreads.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Thank You, Jon Gnagy: An Appreciation of a Predecessor to Bob Ross
Ned Stuckey-French reflects on the host of Learn to Draw, the “middlebrow” instructional art show he loved as a kid.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
New York in the 1970s Gave Us Hip Hop, Madonna, and the Chip on Trump’s Shoulder
“You bang your head against the wall to try to get some nice buildings up, and what happens? Everybody comes after you.”
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction
Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America
Billy Gawronski was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America
Billy Gawronski was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.
Posted inEditor's Pick
After Oranges
Fifty years after New Yorker writer John McPhee published his slender study Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story down to Florida to assess the state of American citrus and the peculiar nature of this enduring book.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Salt, Sugar, Fat, Repeat: A Reading List on Restaurant Chains
On regionality, class, and culture, from Waffle House to the Cheesecake Factory.
