The story of a football team’s mascot, the man inside the costume, and the town that rallied around its local hero.
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Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me
Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the ‘bad stories’ he believes delivered our country to the Trump era.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
Lyrical Ladies, Writing Women, and the Legend of Lauryn Hill
Joan Morgan’s “She Begat This” looks back at how Lauryn Hill crashed through hip-hop’s glass ceiling, while our critic looks at how the author and a cadre of black women writers did the same for hip-hop music journalism.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Nonfiction
The Collected Crimes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
The president chose to pardon an extremely bad man before providing aid to Texas.
Posted inReading List
Longreads Best of 2017: Crime Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
If Clean Food Is for Everyone, Why Are Its Gurus All Young, Pretty Women?
How gendered marketing tropes continue to fuel the latest lifestyle fads.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Hole in My Soul
Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Hole in My Soul
Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
