Meeting an apparently less fortunate child in her daughter’s kindergarten class transports Amber Leventry back to her own painful youth.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editorial team at Longreads.
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Longreads Best of 2016: Crime Reporting
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in crime reporting.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The Atavist, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Outside Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The RNC, Revisited
Last year, when Jared Yates Sexton went to Cleveland, the ugliness he saw there was a harbinger of much to come.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
A Childhood in Cars
How one young man cut against the grain of American masculinity and freed himself from car culture.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Fiction
Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose
From Elisa Albert’s acclaimed 2006 collection, the infamous short story that turned Philip Roth’s playbook inside out.
Posted inFiction, Story
Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose
From Elisa Albert’s acclaimed 2006 collection, the infamous short story that turned Philip Roth’s playbook inside out.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Story
The Bungled Bank Robbery That Ended in a Landmark Legal Ruling
In 1958, John Leo Brady got his lover pregnant and decided to stick up a bank to fund a new life. It ended with a murder, a Supreme Court case, and the formation of the Brady rule.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
You Can See the Battle Scars
How Venezuela’s resistance movement — and the country’s democracy — reached a breaking point during one week in July.
