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In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?

by leighshulman August 8, 2017October 19, 2022

Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.

Current Events, Reading List, Story

The Best Longreads From Trump’s First 100 Days

by mlegro April 28, 2017October 19, 2022

After an exhausting first few weeks, the media dug in for the long fight ahead.

Nonfiction, Quotes

How Billionaires Do Burning Man

by juliawick September 1, 2015October 19, 2022

Like all people who hate Burning Man, I enjoy nothing more than reading articles about Burning Man. In February, Felix Gillette chronicled the semi-clad class warfare at last year’s Burning Man for Bloomberg Businessweek. Despite being a festival based on radical self-reliance, Black Rock City is seemingly overrun with tech billionaires setting up their own exclusive festivals-within-a-festival; ultra-luxe camps that […]

Nonfiction, Reading List

Longreads Best of 2016: Crime Reporting

by Longreads December 15, 2016October 20, 2022

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.

Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

My Grandfather’s Fateful Goodbye, Reimagined

by Karissa Chen July 7, 2017October 19, 2022

Karissa Chen tries to reconstruct the moment her grandfather, at 19, left Shanghai for Taiwan on a supposed vacation—a decision that would alter his life forever.