The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Bruenig, Michael Hobbes, Jesse Barron, Matthew Walsh, and Alan Siegel.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Brittany Packnett, Rahima Nasa, Jordan Smith, Scott Korb, and Chris Heath.
Do You Want to Know a Secret: The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney By Krista Stevens Highlight “Imagine realizing one day that you’re a Beatle. Think about how you might decide to handle that for the next 50, 60, 70 years.”
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.
His Name Was Otto, and He Just Wanted a Little Adventure By Michelle Weber Highlight Otto Warmbier got arrested in North Korea, sentenced to hard labor, and was eventually sent back to the U.S. — comatose. As with many things North Korean, the why and how is speculative at best.
It’s Time for Hooters to GTFO By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight My recommendation: a complete rebrand, where all Hooters restaurants are converted into owl sanctuaries.
The New, Improved, Empathic Sarah Silverman By Krista Stevens Highlight Formerly controversial comic Sarah Silverman is “on a campaign to neutralize her haters with a weapon more powerful than a million burns: empathy.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jessica Bruder, Garrett M. Graff, Suleika Jaouad, Gulnaz Saiyed, and Daniel Riley.
But a Novel Will Never Love You Like Your Children Do By Krista Stevens Highlight Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Susan Goldberg, Leslie Jamison, Jacqueline Keeler, Max Genecov, and Ryan Bradley.
Brendan Fraser’s #MeToo Moment By Sari Botton Highlight Actor Brendan Fraser reveals he was touched inappropriately — and says it’s behind why he vanished from the scene for more than a decade.
The Complicated Politics of Rescue and Recovery By Michelle Legro Highlight The Cajun Navy was an essential part of Hurricane Harvey relief. But like everything else, their efforts became politically complicated.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Luke O’Brien, Jen Gann, Tom Lamont, Norimitsu Onishi, and Sam Knight.
“This Frenzied, Dirty, Impossible Evacuation” By Michelle Weber Highlight Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
Jeff Goldblum Prefers Pouring Orange Juice in His Cereal By Matt Giles Highlight The actor is a steadfast convert, but does that mean the actor is right?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, Vivian Ho, Christopher Goffard, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Alex Pappademas.
Twenty Years Later, The Dude Still Abides By Krista Stevens Highlight Despite being nominated for Academy Awards seven times throughout his career, Jeff Bridges doesn’t mind forever being Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Ellen Pao, Henry Wismayer, Taylor Harris, and Jeff Maysh.
Who’s Trying to Monopolize Mary Jane? By Krista Stevens Highlight Amanda Chicago Lewis tries to track down the people behind BioTech Industries, a company trying to get strict, blanket utility patents on pot.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Caity Weaver, Marisa Meltzer, Jiayang Fan, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Jeff Maysh.
How Do You Name a Not-Quite-Fat Ken Doll? By Ben Huberman Highlight When a company decides to “celebrate diversity,” who’s the party for?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week we’re sharing stories by Caity Weaver, Matthew Desmond, Chris J. Rice, Kent Russell, and Rafe Bartholomew.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week we’re sharing stories by Evan Osnos, Ashley C. Ford, Michael Grabell, Chris Heath, and Becca Andrews.
The Unlikely Friendship of Long Ma and Bac Duong By Michelle Weber Highlight When taxi driver Long Ma agreed to drive Bac Duong home, he had no idea he was about to be taken hostage by three escaped inmates.
She Got Hacked So You Don’t Have To By Krista Stevens Highlight At GQ, Sarah Jeong willingly got “spearphished,” a sophisticated email hack that uses your trust against you.
On Happiness: A Reading List By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List A reading list on happiness to celebrate March 20—or International Day of Happiness.
Weight Loss Does Not Cure Depression: How the World’s Heaviest Man Lost it All By Krista Stevens Highlight Paul Mason lost 700 lbs. after bariatric surgery and finds happiness elusive; dramatic weight loss does nothing to treat the underlying depression and emotional trauma that caused him to eat to excess in the first place.
“Modern Life Is Not Violent Enough,” Said Nobody — But They Thought It By Michelle Weber Highlight This excerpt from Chuck Klosterman’s book “But What If We’re Wrong?” is nominally about football, and violence, but is also a prescient analysis of U.S. politics.
Full Disclosure: A Reading List About Confessions By Emily Perper Reading List In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.
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