Even the Steam Had a Shadow By Longreads Feature “He couldn’t remember coming here, or going anywhere. He looked down at himself. With a writhe of horror, he found he couldn’t even remember getting dressed. His clothes were unfamiliar.”
The Grieving Landscape By Longreads Feature Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent By Longreads Feature At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.
Demonology: A Woman’s Right to Fury By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her new book, Darcey Steinke investigates — and debunks — the demonization of anger within the female body.
Total Depravity: The Origins of the Drug Epidemic in Appalachia Laid Bare By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from his essay collection, Australian journalist Richard Cooke reports on the American opioid crisis through the astonished eyes of a foreigner visiting steel and coal country.
The Indignities of Poverty, Compounded by the Requirement to Prove It By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her debut memoir, Stephanie Land recalls being poor, and moving with her young daughter from a homeless shelter to transitional housing.
An Oral History of Detroit Punk Rock By Steve Miller Feature In Detroit’s empty buildings and troubled streets, restless kids squatted, ran punk clubs, pressed their own records, and made their own magazine. They mostly stayed out of trouble.
Greens By Longreads Feature “’I’m good,’ I told him. I didn’t tell him I was running eleven miles, playing two hours of ball, and eating eight hundred calories a day.”
Speak Truth to Power By Longreads Feature We must speak truth to the power of all that threatens to keep women and girls silent in the face of sexual violence.
A Song for the River By Philip Connors Feature In the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, a seasoned fire lookout watches as his beloved forest and his personal life burn, and he tries to imagine what will arise from their ashes.
Vanishing Twins By Leah Dieterich Feature After years of bonding closely with other people, one woman finally goes searching for herself.
Not Quite Not White By Longreads Feature Sharmila Sen grew up understanding distinctions between castes and religions, between the educated and the illiterate. Race was a distinction she didn’t understand until she came to America.
Convenience Store Woman By Longreads Feature If the convenience store and Japanese society are so similar, why can Keiko Furukura function in one and not the other?
A Girl’s Guide to Missiles By Longreads Feature A professor returns to the California military base where she grew up to make sense of her family’s role developing weapons for the US government.
A British Seaweed Scientist Is Revered in Japan as ‘The Mother of the Sea’ By Longreads Feature Kathleen Drew-Baker died never having set foot in Japan, and never knowing what an impact her research would make. Plus, how to build a lazy bed, how to cook Irish blancmange, and other surprising seaweed stories.
The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music By Tracey Laird and Bill C. Malone Feature How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
Leaving a Good Man Is Hard To Do By Kelli María Korducki Feature When women end relationships, it seems like the emotion we most acutely feel is the guilt of having pushed it away.
A Beast for the Ages By Michael Engelhard Feature Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity?
The Wheel, the Woman, and the Human Body By Aaron Gilbreath Feature How the newly evolved bicycle helped liberate women and modernize America’s concept of fitness.
Taming the Great American Desert By johnforristerross Feature By advocating for agriculture in the arid West, Major John Wesley Powell challenged the way America viewed its right to develop the continent.
The Inward Empire By christiandonlan Feature A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.
The Daughter as Detective By Alice Bolin Feature A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
Old In Art School By Longreads Feature At 64, Nell Painter left a secure teaching position and went back to school to study art.
Trying to Kill the Want By Longreads Feature I was a grown, multi-degreed, loved, moneyed, professionally powerful woman who did not have the strength to wait one-third of an hour before having a drink.
Five Early Lessons in Parenting By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Steven Church discovers his own fragility and limitations in these five discussions with his son.
Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood By Aaron Gilbreath Feature A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
As Innocuous as Plant No. 1 By Aaron Gilbreath Feature William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
A Certain Kind of Mammal By Meaghan O'Connell Feature Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.
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