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.
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The Wolves
A forester’s daughter spends a night in a cabin in Soviet Russia, but it takes decades to discover how much danger she put her family in.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Mr. Throat and Me
When life’s greatest pleasure is the one you have to quit.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
White Men
What do we get from our parents? An inheritance always comes with a tax.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Living in the Aftershock of Someone Else’s Earthquake
A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Living the American Dream in Comer, Georgia: The Garden of Refugees
The story of Eh Kaw Htoo, a Karen refugee from Myanmar — a man who “extolled the redneck’s work ethic” and helped build a community of 150 Karens who sustain one another by living frugally and sharing the bounty of the land in the rural community of Comer, Georgia.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Currency of Cars: How to Leave a Husband
The rickety ’98 Volvo wagon didn’t look like much, but it provided Debbie Weingarten and her children safe passage to a new life.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
After Marriage Equality, to Party, or to Protest?
Spenser Mestel recalls the emotionally complicated day, two years ago, when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
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How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore
Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard?
