The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Newton, William Langewiesche, Sarah Miller, Hafizah Geter, and Shannon Keating.
How Do You Get Help When No One Believes You? By Michelle Weber Highlight “Asylum” technically means “a place of safety or refuge,” but that’s not now many psychiatric in-patients experience their time on psych wards.
The Hackers Who Led a Young Woman to Her Death By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How did an ambitious, kind 23-year-old go from working at a California cannabis dispensary to living in Manila with an internet criminal?
Maybe Beauty Doesn’t Have to Mean Pain By Michelle Weber Highlight Little girls flock to ballet classes, but the art isn’t kind to their bodies, autonomy, or sense of self. What has to change?
Facebook Isn’t the Same as “The Internet” Except When It Is By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens when a tool created by a bunch of developers in California becomes the main news source of a country 7,000 miles away? Nothing good.
‘Mami’s biggest lesson’: On Storytelling and the Weight of Words By Danielle Jackson Highlight The author learned how to tell stories from her psychic mother.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lyz Lenz, Chris Sweeney, Megan Zahneis and Jack Stripling, Davey Alba, and Christopher Borrelli.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Christine Kenneally, Desiree Stennett and Lisa Rowan, Andrea Long Chu, Victoria Blanco, and David Kushner.
She’s Not Just a Girl in the World By Michelle Weber Highlight She’s a rock star, and a mom, and a tomboy, and a wife, and a study in contradictions.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Justin Heckert, Hannah Louise Poston, Anne Helen Petersen, Jiayang Fan, and Rachel Greenwald Smith.
On Pointe: Reading on Ballet By Em Perper Reading List Emily Perper shares their love of dance with five great reads on ballet.
‘I Feel Closer to My Faith Than I Did Before’: Holding On to Ramadan By Danielle Jackson Highlight Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on why he still fasts during Ramadan.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Chelsea G. Summers, Linda Villarosa, Ben Smith, Chappell Ellison, and Louisa Thomas.
A Journalist Takes Stock of His Formative Years By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An experienced reporter looks back at the hard lessons he learned reporting from Eastern Europe during a politically tumultuous time.
Leslie Jamison Fesses Up By Krista Stevens Highlight Leslie Jamison reveals the role lying has played in her life.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahawa Haile; Hannah Dreier; Rukmini Callimachi; Mary Anne Mohanraj, Keah Brown, S. Bear Bergman, Matthew Salesses, and Kiese Laymon; and Molly Fitzpatrick.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Masha Gessen, Molly Osberg, T. S. Mendola, Alexander Chee, and George Murray.
The Money His Father Left Behind, and the Life it Would Start By Michelle Legro Commentary When Alexander Chee’s father died at 43, he left behind a trust that would set the course of his son’s life.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aly Raisman, Joseph Williams, Jenna Wortham, Mayukh Sen, and Sirin Kale.
Native Americans’ Persecution Continues; Only the Uniforms Have Changed By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Between deadly police shootings and a white correctional officer sexually assualting Native American women, the Bad River Band of the Ojibwe nation feels more preyed upon than protected.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ronan Farrow, Diana Nyad, Rachel Monroe, Ross Andersen, and Teresa Mathew.
Feeling the Wind in Their Beards By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For the Sikh Motorcycle Club Of The Northeast, riding is centering, creates brotherhood and reaffirms their commitment to Sikh values.
Idaho Conservatives Are Trying to Move the American GOP Further Right By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For the ultra-right wing Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, today’s GOP isn’t Republican enough.
The Prophet Will See You Now By Michelle Weber Highlight At the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, miracles (supposedly) happen every day.
Keeping Black Farm Families Connected to the Land in Michigan By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Blueberry growing is popular around tiny Covert, Michigan, but how do these farmers of color keep their kids farming the land?
Wives, Queens, and Other Comedy Heroes: A Reading List By Em Perper Reading List A reading list dedicated to queer and trans comedians, and comedians of color.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rana Dasgupta, Whitney Joiner, Jesse Barron, Kiese Laymon, and David Roth.
Longreads Goes to the Movies: A Reading List By Em Perper Reading List Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.
The American Dental Refugees of Mexico’s ‘Molar City’ By Michelle Legro Highlight Los Algodones is a popular destination for people in search of cheap dental care — many of whom voted for Trump.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Linda Villarosa, Maurice Chammah, Mike Giglio, and Will Storr.
