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.
The Only Downside to Lower Infant-Mortality Rates? All Those Baby Books By Ben Huberman Highlight When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.
Ten Books to Read in 2018 By Catherine Cusick Highlight We asked writers, editors, and booksellers to tell us about a few books they felt deserved more recognition last year.
Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now By Longreads Feature Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
The RNC, Revisited By Longreads Feature Last year, when Jared Yates Sexton went to Cleveland, the ugliness he saw there was a harbinger of much to come.
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music By Longreads Feature On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
We Should Be Talking About the Effect of Climate Change on Cities By Longreads Feature But we’re not. Instead, the effects on cities tend to be edited out or statistically minimized.
Is the Internet Changing Time? By Longreads Feature “Fragments of the past are for the first time on tap, not stored away in boxes,” writes Laurence Scott.
The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty By Longreads Feature More than fifty years ago, one man tried to hold the Coors brewery CEO for ransom. Things went very badly.
A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick By Longreads Feature On the beauty and burdens of the long haul.
On Why Joni Mitchell Deserves Her Due By Krista Stevens Highlight Carl Wilson argues that her genius has been overlooked for far too long, because of her gender.
How a Journalist Uncovered the True Identity of Jihadi John By Longreads Feature Souad Mekhennet’s thrilling tale of late-night rendezvous, burner phones, and secret codes — and her quest to reveal the man in black.
The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color By Longreads Feature Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.
Girl Wonder By Meaghan O'Connell Feature When Meaghan O’Connell finished reading a celebrated young author’s debut novel, she felt a mix of admiration, jealousy, and recognition of the powerlessness that comes with young adulthood.
Why Are Humans So Curious? By Jessica Gross Feature Mario Livio on his new book about human curiosity, his work as an astrophysicist, and why we shouldn’t fear our expanding universe.
The 1923 Novel That Helps Us Understand Today’s Racial Climate By Danielle Jackson Commentary ‘Cane’ is a series of vignettes about life in rural Georgia told from the point of view of an ambivalently black teacher from the north.
Late in Life, Thoreau Became a Serious Darwinist By Longreads Feature But he died before he could finish his book on natural history. As Emerson put it, Thoreau “depart[ed] out of Nature before… he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.”
Harry Potter and the Long-Term Global Impact By Danielle Tcholakian Reading List J.K. Rowling’s first book was published 20 years ago today. Did it create better readers, or just more of them?
A Portrait of the Artist as an Undocumented Immigrant By Longreads Feature A Mexican writer recalls undocumented life at a restaurant in New York and as a nanny in Connecticut.
Following John McPhee’s Path to ‘Oranges’ By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Fifty years after he published Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story to Florida to assess the state of American citrus.
Jeff Bezos: Hero or Villain? By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Is the man behind Amazon a benevolent benefactor or a manipulative monopolist?
A Sociology of the Smartphone By Longreads Feature Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.
Getting Out the Message To Save Himself By Aaron Gilbreath Feature In Don Waters’ short story “Full of Days,” a grieving Las Vegas man uses an anti-abortion billboard to justify his own pained existence.
At War With the Rat Army By Longreads Feature A refugee from Nazi Germany has trouble adjusting to life in America, so she decamps to the countryside, where she discovers that the war follows you in unexpected ways.
Norma McCorvey Versus Jane Roe By Longreads Feature In 1970, a homeless woman pregnant with her third child met with two lawyers at a pizzeria in Dallas. Did it matter, in the end, who Jane Roe really was?
On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much By Longreads Feature Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
Considering the Wall By Longreads Feature Hadrian’s Wall, that is. Max Adams explores Britain’s lost early medieval past by walking its ancient paths.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Cheerful Novel of Climate Change By Michelle Legro Commentary The sci-fi writer explains how his city-dwellers learn to survive and thrive after a climate-change catastrophe.
The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800 By Longreads Feature A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
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