“I have always been drawn to stories about people who try to escape — escape their neighborhoods, their families, their histories — and who instead become what they were running from.”
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Posted inEditor's Pick
Inside the Unlicensed Counseling That Led Boston Students to Allege Emotional Abuse
“RC’s critics say it has no place in public schools and could harm students who feel pressured to participate or burdened by peers’ psychological suffering. Steven Hassan, a Newton-based licensed mental health counselor and cult expert, considers RC a splinter group of Dianetics and a cult.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.
Posted inCrime, Highlight, Quotes
When the Answers Wash Out with the Tide
Police eventually figured out who killed Jaimee Mendez, but not how or why.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jennifer Gonnerman, Evan Allen, Britni de la Cretaz, Jen Banbury, and Gordon Edgar.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
What the Boston Globe’s ‘Make It Stop’ Front Page Says About Moral Outrage in Journalism
Nothing is normal right now, so it makes perfect sense that journalists should reconsider what objectivity means in 2017.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Good, the Bad, and the Highly Personal: A Reading List About Haircuts
Six stories about our relationships with our hair.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Doughnuts, Witches and Start-Ups: Five Stories About Secret Subcultures
What makes a secret society? Is it the codes and the handshakes, the physical language?
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Doughnuts, Witches and Start-Ups: Five Stories About Secret Subcultures
What makes a secret society? Is it the codes and the handshakes, the physical language?
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.