A pool salesman struggles to cope with a weak economy, which has forced him to rethink the meaning of the American Dream: ‘You can’t be too safe or too smart about money with the economy now,’ Tyler said. ‘I want to save up and make the smart investments.’ ‘You’ll make them,’ Frank said, nodding. ‘I […]
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“My Son Is Schizophrenic. The ‘Reforms’ That I Worked for Have Worsened His Life.” — Paul Gionfriddo, The Washington Post More from The Washington Post
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Longreads Member Exclusive: A Visit to Havana
This week, we’re proud to feature a Longreads Member Exclusive from Alma Guillermoprieto and The New York Review of Books. Born in Mexico City, Guillermoprieto has covered Latin America for NYRB since 1994, and she has also written for The New Yorker, The Guardian and the Washington Post. Today’s feature, “A Visit to Havana,” is […]
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Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring New York magazine, Washington Post, The Daily (RIP), Vanity Fair, The Guardian, fiction from The New Yorker and a guest pick by Reine Gammoh.
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Longreads Best of 2012: Woodland Creature
Woodland Creature: My 20 Favorite Longreads of 2012 woodlandcreature: Longreads sent out its list of the 10 best longreads of the year yesterday. Here’s my own personal list, except I could only narrow it down to 20: “A Family Learns the True Meaning of the Vow ‘In Sickness and in Health,’” Susan Baer, Washington Post […]
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Behind the Longreads: Dan Zak on the Nun and the Nukes
We asked Washington Post reporter Dan Zak how he stumbled upon “The Prophets of Oak Ridge.” Here’s his account: “This story happened because a generous colleague, Dana Priest, pitched it downstairs to my area of the newsroom. She had finished a series on the country’s aging nuclear arsenal and a shorter news story on security lapses […]
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Longreads Guest Pick: Margaret Ely on 'Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi'
Margaret Ely is a web producer and reporter for The Washington Post. Maybe I was hungry and saw the word “sushi” in the headline, but I was hooked the moment I started reading Adam Johnson’s bizarre, outlandish story about a Japanese chef who served North Korea’s supreme, “dear leader” Kim Jong-il. While it’s known that […]
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5 Stories on What Happens to Whistleblowers After They Speak Out
Above: Mark Felt Julia Wick is a native Angeleno who writes about literature, Los Angeles, and cities. She is currently finishing an Urban Planning degree at USC. With Chelsea Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison and Edward Snowden’s future still uncertain, it seems a pertinent time to look at what becomes of our whistleblowers after […]
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The Time Jason Zengerle and a Gorilla Stalked Michael Moore for Might Magazine
Jason Zengerle | Might magazine | 1997 | 19 minutes (4,685 words) Introduction Thanks to our Longreads Members’ support, we tracked down a vintage story from Dave Eggers’s Might Magazine. It’s from Jason Zengerle, a correspondent for GQ and contributing editor for New York magazine who’s been featured on Longreads often in the past.
