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“It’s becoming rarer to get to work on writing that’s real and true, a story idea conceived by a human brain and reported by a human heart, a piece of writing that helps us understand others, and ourselves, a little better.” While I’ve followed Longreads since it started as a hashtag in 2009, I’m proud […]
“Invite writers and readers in—magic will follow.” Six years ago, I published my first essay as an editor for Longreads. Margot Harris’s “Under the Knife” opens with a scene of cupcakes shaped like private parts (and goes on to discuss the guilt of having cosmetic surgery as a feminist). What a privilege, I thought at […]
“A cluster of fatal horse injuries at Woodbine raises questions about the future of the sport.”
How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?
As Russia invaded Ukraine, three women from the same family became pregnant at the same time. Then the war tore them apart.
“Give me the complicated, the missed connections, the big gestures, the bittersweet endings. Give me the struggle, because it’s the struggle that makes it love.” Yes, today is that day. Dreadful for some of us, but delightful for others. (Especially all the excited school-age kids exchanging “Be My Valentine” messages—which, these days, are no longer […]
“But he did get sober. By the time his book came out almost exactly a year ago, he’d been clean 18 months.”
“We’re entering an era of climate nationalism, where the right could be poised to reclaim climate change as an issue of its own.”
“The racist 1980s comedy broke box-office records worldwide—then promptly disappeared. The story behind it is revealing.”
