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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Longreads Best of 2017: Sports Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in sports writing.
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 inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Diary of a Do-Gooder
After years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Crime, Current Events, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women
We Need to Talk About Madness: A Reading List
Talking about it is terrifying, but not talking about it is deadly.
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized
What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists
Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
We Are Scientists
A scientist examines the connections between his Indian immigrant father and the brilliant but overlooked Indian scientist Yellapragada Subbarow.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Profiles & Interviews, Story
It’s a Wonderful World: The Remaking of California Agriculture
An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.
Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
