The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ibram X. Kendi, Wesley Morris, James Baldwin, Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason, and Josina Guess.
The Shopper’s Dream of an Optimized Life By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The subscription-based business model saves customers time, but it doesn’t help you use that extra time for anything beneficial. In a way you’ll feel good about.
COVID-19: Dispatches from Sing Sing By Krista Stevens Highlight “Sing Sing was going into quarantine. Our movement was limited. No gym. Hospital and commissary runs limited to groups of ten. Staggered seating in the mess hall.”
Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.
“White” Isn’t Even Neutral When You’re Talking About Paint Colors By Michelle Weber Highlight Your systems will not protect you.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Julie K. Brown, Joe Sexton, Zeke Faux and Zachary R. Mider, Bruce Grierson, and Michael Hainey.
Bruce Springsteen: Sadness, Love, Madness, and Soul By Krista Stevens Highlight “All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sasha Issenberg, Libby Copeland, Jamilah King, Berry Grass, and Dayna Evans.
For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery By Sari Botton Highlight Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
Viagra: The Happiest of All Happy Accidents? By Krista Stevens Highlight How a happy accident has gone on to make men happy the world over.
Just Another Bugout Behind Bars By Michelle Weber Highlight How and when did prisons become one of the New York’s major providers of mental health care — and can we actually call it “care”?
Sometimes the Story Finds You: An Interview With Rachel Monroe By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
When the Amber Alert System Fails: An Abduction on Navajo Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Monroe, Jianan Qian, Rene Ebersole, Adi Robertson, and Kyle Chayka.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from C.J. Chivers, Sheelah Kolhatkar, Libby Copeland, Amanda Petrusich, and Bryan Menegus.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, David Zax, Christopher Glazek, Farah Stockman, and Alex Mar.
The Sacred Right of Universal Narcotic Entitlement By Michelle Weber Highlight Inventing maladies and marketing drugs to relieve them isn’t a new m.o. for pharmaceutical companies. OxyContin is its fullest and most terrible expression.
Should Youth Football be Banned? By Krista Stevens Highlight Esquire writer Luke O’Neil recalls playing tackle football as a kid, where “you can hit so hard that you knock yourself out.”
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.
A Roll of the Immigration Law Dice By Michelle Weber Highlight Captain Noorullah Aminyar has been in detention for three years now, his asylum application subject to a system of immigration law both complex and capricious.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Libby Copeland, Patrick Blanchfield, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Cory Taylor, and Tabitha Blankenbiller.
Miles to Go Before You Sleep By Michelle Weber Highlight “When the safety crew came to retrieve him, Brandon was adamant he’d been underground for two full days. In reality, he’d only been below for twelve hours.”
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.
They’re (Almost) All Good Tweets, Brent By Michelle Weber Highlight Matt Nelson is a college sophomore who took WeRateDogs from spur-of-the-moment joke to data-driven fav-machine.
In Your Dreams: A Reading List By Em Perper Reading List In dreams, everything looks familiar but wrong somehow. Here are six stories about what happens between sleep and wakefulness.
The Complicated Power of DIY Justice By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Canadian vigilantes with names like Creep Hunters make popular videos busting pedophiles, and many are now refining their tactics to try and go mainstream.
Obama’s Aesthetic of Cool By Michelle Weber Highlight Charles Pierce, writing in Esquire, on President Obama’s Democratic National Convention Speech and uniquely American brand of “cool.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
Resolving to Read, Write, and Travel More in 2016 By Em Perper Reading List The things Emily is reading to help her with her 2016 resolutions for reading, writing, and traveling.
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