This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Jen Gann, Christine H. Lee, John Birdsall, and Anna Callaghan.
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Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage
Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.
Posted inStory
Keeping the Focus on the People: An Interview with Joe Kloc
It took eight years to write the story of Richardson Bay’s boat community, known as the anchor-outs.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Story
‘Choose Marriage or Education’
As a teenager, Madhur Anand’s mother takes heed of her father’s final words and becomes a teacher.
Posted inBusiness, Commentary, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story, Uncategorized
What Should Universal Basic Income Look Like?
Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
Posted inCulture, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Pilgrimage to MSG Mecca
A fan of MSG visits the world’s largest producer of this contentious flavor-enhancing agent.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Angella d’Avignon, Katie Englehart, Caitlin Dewey, Eric Benson, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom.
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Japan: A Longform Reading List of Longform Writing
Armchair travel is more important than ever, now that pandemic has forced us to stay indoors. Reading can take you across the ocean.
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Come for the Crullers, Stay for the Community
“It’s funny, how a seemingly soulless franchise started to feel like an old friend, once I spent enough time there.”
