• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
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

fathers

Posted inEditor's Pick

Parting the Waters

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 18, 2023January 17, 2023

“Generations of family memories wash away in Silver Falls.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Fighting the Tree

by Peter Rubin January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

“Maybe I wasn’t the son Dad wanted. Maybe, if he could have, he would have picked another kid, a son he could enjoy parenting.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Extraordinary Circumstances

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 1, 2022October 19, 2022

Kenneth Watkins’s son, Kenny, was 6 days old when he was taken away by ACS, New York City’s child-welfare agency. Kenny was then placed with an affluent foster family. To regain custody, Watkins had to prove that being poor didn’t make him a bad father. Despite Watkins’ constant efforts, it took years to get Kenny […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Bees In My Brain

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“I’d sometimes wonder if my dad had bees of his own. Little creatures that spoke to him in his native tongue, telling him he wasn’t good enough, too.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Kitchen Dad

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 23, 2021October 19, 2022

“Place the oyster on a bed of ice and go to the next one. It’s possible to refine this technique to perfection. Like changing a diaper.”

Posted inNonfiction

Carrying Histories of Protest

by Longreads October 29, 2019January 20, 2023

Jaquira Díaz witnesses her father’s rebellious fight for a better life, and her homeland’s fight for its place in the world.

Posted inNonfiction

One Man’s Poison

by Kyoko Mori September 2, 2019January 27, 2023

The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.

Posted inNonfiction

Finding My Father

by Natassja Schiel August 5, 2019February 3, 2023

At age thirty-two, after years working as an exotic dancer, the daughter of a mysteriously absentee father finally puts together the pieces that had been missing her whole life.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Father’s Little Helper

by Sari Botton June 12, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which, while under the influence of Valium, Scott Korb reflects on all the fathers he could have been and the father he has become.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Father’s Little Helper

by Scott Korb June 12, 2019October 19, 2022

While under the influence of Valium, Scott Korb reflects on all the fathers he could have been and the father he has become.

Posts navigation

1 2 3 4 Older posts
Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • 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}