“They have washed their hands for you. / And they take the bus home.” —Jericho Brown
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Posted inNonfiction
The Christmas Tape
Wendy McClure recounts how an old audio tape of holiday music becomes a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.
Posted inStory
Welcome to Hive
Hive is a new Longreads series about women and the music that has influenced them.
Posted inBooks
This Month In Books: What Did We Miss?
The end of the year is a time for regrets. What are the books we didn’t feature?
Posted inReading List
The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form
Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
Life After Pain
One day, Ge Gao’s right hand stopped working. Then the pain started, and it’s never stopped.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Evan Ratliff, Gene Weingarten, Zachary Fagenson, Michael H. Keller and Gabriel J.X. Dance, and Clio Chang.
Posted inStory
Why Lhasa de Sela Matters
Raised in a school bus by itinerant hippie parents, with one foot in Mexico and one in the US, the singer blossomed into her true multicultural self in bilingual Montreal.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Concealing a Catastrophe: ‘The Day the Music Burned’
“The vault fire was not, as UMG suggested, a minor mishap, a matter of a few tapes stuck in a musty warehouse. It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business.”
Posted inNonfiction
In Search of Etty Hillesum
The work of a young Jewish diarist, writing in Amsterdam around the time Anne Frank began her famous diary, shows the transformation of pain into radical altruism.
