• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
Skip to content
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
Longreads

Longreads

Longreads : The best longform stories on the web

  • Support Us
Support Us

diaspora

Posted inEditor's Pick

When Food Is the Only Narrative We Consume

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 8, 2023March 6, 2023

“Chinese culture can’t be made bite-sized for mass consumption.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing

by Peter Rubin January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

“Corky Lee’s images do something we do not usually imagine photographs can do. Rather than merely showing the visible, they are portraits of structural forces.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

We Need to Translate More Armenian Literature

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“We need them to assert our very existence.”

Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Story

The House on Mayo Road

by Dure Amna November 15, 2018October 19, 2022

Dur e Aziz Amna considers the year in Pakistan when everything changed.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Quotes

In the End, It’s All Just the Stories We Tell

by michelleweber May 17, 2018October 19, 2022

Diana Arterian’s sad, lyrical essay on the legacy of the Armenian Genocide in the diaspora centers on a family story that everyone has heard — but that no one knows the truth of.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Essay Will Feel Like It’s Killing You

by Krista Stevens May 30, 2017October 19, 2022

“Begin by writing about anything else,” says Porochista Khakpour, until she becomes conflicted about writing about being Iranian-American.

Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice for California Users
  • Press
  • RSS Feed
  • Opt-out preferences

Part of the

family

© 2023 Longreads. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}