The stories that sparked awe and made me think differently in 2024.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism
How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps
A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Beirut, at Sunset
“Beirut is a feeling that can’t be described. It can only be lived.”
Posted inFeature
The Road to Becoming Enough
I began, if not to turn away from the mythical notion of a man to “complete” me, to accept that there was no love out there for me. I chose mountains instead.
Posted inEditor's Pick
I Spent Three Years Inhaling Tacos and Corn Dogs in Eating Contests. Here’s Why I Stopped.
“The first time I entered an eating contest, I made a little girl cry.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories by Pamela Colloff, Jasper Craven, Omer Bartov, Judith Sanders, and Lale Arikoglu.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Preservation of Summer Pulled into Winter
“The gin, now, is wrapped up in those memories: wild and unruly in both ways, full of the tang of the uncultivated tree, the illicit uses of these spaces otherwise unused by people.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Trans Awakening—at Age 66
“The day I came out to her, it was like the sun shone for the first time.”
Posted inNewsletter
Strong Mothers, Boundless Lives, and the Week’s Top 5
Have you read Craig Brown’s Hello Goodbye Hello? It’s a blast: “a circle of 101 remarkable meetings,” as the jacket says, with each chapter a pithy, intimate encounter between two figures from history
Posted inEditor's Pick
Haunting the Archive
“The media’s obsession with my mother changed my relationship to grief.”
