She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews
The Many Acts of Keith Gordon
How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
The Many Acts of Keith Gordon
How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story, Uncategorized
The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval
Hunter-gatherers tended to think of pets as part of the family, and so do we. But in other time periods, intimacy with animals has been more taboo.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inStory, Unapologetic Women
On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much
Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s — and his own — creativity.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
No Más Fantasía
What happens when you’re sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, then released 19 years later and sent to a place that’s supposed to feel like home?
Posted inEditor's Pick, First Chapters, Nonfiction
Mourning the Low-Rent, Weirdo-Filled East Village of Old
An excerpt of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Jeremiah Moss.
Posted inNonfiction
I’ve Found Her
Photos of an elderly French stranger has one Canadian writer examining the threads that connect people across continents and generations.
