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Ten Outstanding Stories to Read in 2023

by Longreads January 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Ten hand-picked short stories to kick off your year in reading.

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Posted inReading List

Disappearing Language: A Reading List on Losing Your Native Tongue

by Pardeep Toor February 24, 2022October 21, 2022

Powerful reads on which language comes first, second, or even third.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Cultural History of Racial Fraud

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 22, 2021October 19, 2022

What does it mean to perform race for a white audience?

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 19, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne, Nina Martin, Alex Tizon, Mary Mann, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Andy Newman.

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Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Tyranny of Free Time, or How to Be Bored In Fiji

by michelleweber May 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Mary Mann lays bare what most travelers are loathe to admit: it’s just as easy to be bored in Paris or on Bora Bora as it is at home.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Thomas Cook and the Stack Pirates

by michelleweber May 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Boredom and an enterprising Brit gave birth to the modern tourism industry, and we’re still trying to make sense of it all.

Posted inReading List

A Reading List for Mother’s Day

by Emily Perper May 14, 2017October 19, 2022

There is no grand unified theory of motherhood. Within every paradigm, mothering may vary a million times over.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

One Novelist Remembers Her Moment

by Aaron Gilbreath February 27, 2017October 19, 2022

The cover was striking: it showed a syringe. On the back cover one character leaned over a table, snorting cocaine. The calls from radio stations began, the advertising spots, the letters, above all the letters. Girls telling me about their first acid trip. Gay guys who’d been thrown out of their houses. Girls in love […]

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches

by Emily Perper October 17, 2016October 19, 2022

Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches

by Emily Perper October 17, 2016October 19, 2022

Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.

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