“Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he’d like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
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Richard E. Grant: ‘Love Again? I’m Not Looking For It’
“The actor has starred in over 70 films — and been a scene-stealer in them all. So when he’s not working, what does he do for fun?”
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What If the Economy Was Modeled After Ecology?
“By treating economies as living systems, we can build financial frameworks that regenerate rather than exploit.”
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Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a “Culture of Fear”
“Those of us who’ve been very unsafe as children, we seek out the unsafe. We seek out the lack of security, and if you have security, you blow it up.”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Vauhini Vara
The author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age and The Immortal King Rao on memorable meals and books about whales.
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What Happened to Cameron Crowe? He Has Answers.
“Life is the best writer, and sometimes you have to let life show you a little bit of what that is.”
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Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks
“Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.”
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Sister Inquiry
“The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.”
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Jeff Mills Loves to Forget
“How techno’s most vaunted architect is still building sonic futures.”
