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Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness
The soft-focus Britain of Downton Abbey bears little resemblance to the real Britain collapsing under the weight of racism, austerity, and COVID-19. As Brexit plods on, it’s time for an honest reckoning of the history and future of this outsize little island.
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Smoking: A Legal Weed Reading List
The economy, the culture, and the promise of cannabis.
Posted inNonfiction
No Time Like the Present
You don’t know what day it is, do you? Robert Burke Warren digs into ‘the Oddball Effect’ and fascinating brain data that may help explain why.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
“You no longer need grocery stores to buy groceries.” But that might not be a good thing. Kevin Kelley wants to save us from the techification of our food supply and help us reconnect to what we eat.
Posted inCommentary, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Seeding a Dark World with New Life
As she’s done before, Sara B. Franklin greets the specter of death by defiantly planting a life-sustaining vegetable garden.
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The Trees That Sail to Sea
You may see a piece of driftwood at the beach or on the shore and wonder about its journey from land to water, and back to land again. Driftwood is not only beautiful, it’s a critical piece of the marine ecosystem that offers vital sanctuary to breeding insects and invertebrates on shore and in the […]
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I’m a Food Writer—With Some Food Issues
For food writers, work is food and food is life, but between social pressures, body image and random comment from strangers, female food writers navigate uniquely difficult terrain.
Posted inCommentary, Podcasts
Editor’s Roundtable: Cities, And How They Used to be Good (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The CT Mirror, and Engadget.
