Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
The Changeling
Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Rachel Cusk on Eschewing her ‘Cuskness’ For Her Alter-Ego in ‘Outline’ and ‘Transit’
Rachel Cusk talks to Heidi Julavits about the “trench” she digs between herself and representations of herself, in both memoir and “autofiction.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, History, Story
The Camouflage Artist: Two World Wars, Two Loves, and One Great Deception
In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Nina Simone’s Three Years of Freedom
At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
A Remarkable Child
My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Tale of Two Vegases
Gayle Brandeis takes two trips to Sin City with her mother — one while her mother is delusional.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Tale of Two Vegases
Gayle Brandeis takes two trips to Sin City with her mother — one while her mother is delusional.
Posted inReading List
Longreads Goes to the Movies: A Reading List
Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Can Molly Save a Marriage?
An excerpt from A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman’s memoir on experimenting with microdoses of LSD to treat a mood disorder.
