Featured Longreader: N.V. Binder, librarian, adventurer, author. See her story picks from The Atlantic, Winnipeg Free Press, Los Angeles Times, plus more on her #longreads page.
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Introducing Travelreads: The Best Storytelling for the Best Places in the World, Presented by Virgin Atlantic
One of the coolest things about Longreads is when someone tweets: “I’m at the airport about to fly to San Francisco / New York / London / India / Argentina. I need some #Longreads for the trip.” This got us thinking: What if we started gathering the best #longreads for every destination in the world? […]
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The stories of Daniel Murphy and Ben Zucker, two participants in Occupy Wall Street who are still looking to define what the movement is all about: At 23, Zucker has the organizing gene. He’s a fresh graduate of Tulane University, where he studied public health to get a foot in the door of social justice […]
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They helped overthrow Qaddafi, and now “women want what is due to them”: Until the war broke out, women generally were forced to keep a low profile. Married women who pursued careers were frowned upon. And Qaddafi’s own predatory nature kept the ambitions of some in check. Amel Jerary had aspired to a political career […]
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What it’s like to be one half of a couple where one partner is HIV positive, and the other is not: We go to the mall and spend too much. We go to multiplexes and laugh at bad horror movies. We scrape by, for several months, on turkey sandwiches and canned soup and whatever meals […]
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In situations where girls are showing signs of puberty as early as age 6, should parents fight it with drug treatments, or figure out ways for their child to accept what is happening? ‘I would have a long conversation with her family, show them all the data,’ Greenspan continues. Once she has gone through what […]
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Inquiry, The London Review of Books, a fiction pick, plus a guest pick from Nicholas Jackson.
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[National Magazine Awards Finalist] [Fiction] A tattoo artist meets a middle-aged mom: The woman stood in the doorway, twisting her head at odd angles like a goddamn owl to see our designs on the walls, before walking up to the counter. ‘Sure you’re in the right place?,’ I asked. ‘This ain’t no nail salon.’ ‘Is […]
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The untold story of George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard. Hagan revisits the mystery that led to the downfall of CBS’s Dan Rather—with new details on what may have really happened when Bush suddenly stopped flying in the spring of 1972: The CBS documents that seem destined to haunt Rather are, and […]
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Featured Longreader: Jeannie Mark, traveler and writer. See her story picks from National Geographic, You Are Not So Smart, The Atlantic, plus more.
