“With a drink in my hand and earplugs responsibly in place, I’m very aware that I’ve spent more than half my life essentially standing in the same spot: off to one side of the stage (close but not too close), eyes forward, shifting weight from foot to foot.”
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Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Science & Nature, Story
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Pearls
Born from irritation and intrusion, luminous and complex, surprisingly durable: pearls are rich with symbolism and saturated with pain.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Diet Is a Four-Letter Word
Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores America’s history of obsession with thinness and her own struggles with her body.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes
Unearthing the History of Lynching, One Story at a Time
The descendants of lynching victim Elwood Higginbotham learn the circumstances of his 1935 murder in Oxford, Mississippi.
Posted inCommentary, Highlight, History, Nonfiction
The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write
Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.
Posted inNonfiction
A Dispatch From the Fast-Paced, Makeshift World of High-End Catering
The unsung heroes of the food world battle against time and chaos, cooking haute cuisine over lit cans of Sterno in the gloomy back hallways of New York’s civic landmarks.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Should We Create New Life As Our Planet Struggles to Support Life In General?
Knowing what we now know about global warming, is procreation irresponsible?
Posted inNonfiction
On the Hotness of Not Getting Any
Edging, or extending the time leading up to an orgasm, is almost a character of its own in Normal People, Run, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It also has a lot to teach us about sexuality and consent.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘Just Pure Greed’: A Journalist Exposes Jared Kushner’s Baltimore Housing History
ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis has an infuriating new story about Kushner’s aggressive targeting of tenants.
