“A hot dog, a Pimm’s cup and two national anthems: The cultural dissonance of watching America’s pastime in London.”
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Outsourcing Your Appetite to YouTube
In this essay, co-published with Cake Zine, Adam Dalva writes about Ozempic, his fixation with watching food influencers eat, and a visit to a steakhouse.
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My Harmony With the Heron
“In an excerpt from his new memoir, Something in the Woods Loves You, Jarod K. Anderson shares how nature became a balm for his mental health and depression.”
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The Disappearance of the Public Bench
“Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.”
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
“ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.”
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Senior Editor at Longreads Cheri Lucas Rowlands is a founding editor at Automattic and has worked on Longreads since 2014. Stories she’s edited have won ASJA Awards and a Pushcart Prize, been named a James Beard Award finalist, and received notable mentions in Best American Essays and The Best Women’s Travel Writing. Writers have landed agents and […]
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Barnaby’s Futura Fantasy
“In Crockett Johnson’s iconic comic strip, the type speaks for itself.”
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Help Us Publish Stories That Outlast the Noise
We’re a home for stories that linger. In 2017, I reached out to Candace Rardon, a writer and artist whose watercolor sketches I’d admired for years. Up until that point, I’d only edited traditional essays for Longreads, but I wanted to experiment with illustrated personal narratives. We brainstormed a visual direction, and the final piece […]
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My Name Is a Mountain
On language, belonging, and embracing the different versions of ourselves.
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Daylighting a Brook in the Bronx
“An ode to an underground waterway and the restorative effort to unbury it.”
