Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s a selection of profiles that resonated with us this year.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mosi Secret, David Farrier, Ferris Jabr, Blake Butler, and Eoghan Walsh.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Katie Engelhart, Katy Vine, Zach Baron, and Colin Dickey.
Killer Mike Takes His Allies Where He Finds Them By Michelle Weber Highlight “You may start off with Professor X but Magneto got a fucking point.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Gell, Donovan X. Ramsey, Hannah L. Drake, E. Alex Jung, and Lina Mounzer.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Justine van der Leun, Rebecca Traister, Larry Kramer, Gabriella Paiella, and Rosanne Cash.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Doug Bock Clark, Thomas Lake, Leslie Jamison, Paul Thompson, and Jude Isabella.
‘Hand to hand to hand’: How Coronavirus Spread Aboard the Diamond Princess By Krista Stevens Highlight “…the ship…provided the world’s best data set on the virus, confirming crucial facts about how the disease spread, especially through asymptomatic carriers.”
“Different Days” for Jason Isbell By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m grateful that I was a drunk. I’m grateful that I know what all those things are like, what those feelings are like, how bad it can hurt, how great it can feel.”
Will the Real Dwight Yoakam Please Speak Up By Krista Stevens Highlight “Whether this (continuous deflection) is intentional or not, it’s a good way of avoiding giving too much away.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Van Brocklin, Brian Merchant, Christine Fennessy, Peter Schjeldahl, and Gabriella Paiella.
The Traffic Jam on Mount Everest that Cost 11 Lives By Krista Stevens Highlight “The crowd seemed incredible—like a bag of Skittles had been scattered down the slope.”
No One Knows Why Gunshots Are Terrorizing the Malibu Mountains By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Dead bodies, shots fired at passing cars, rumors of a survivalist carrying a rifle — what is happening around Malibu Creek State Park, and did police capture the right suspect?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Brian M. Rosenthal, Katelyn Burns, Chris Ip, Wendy S. Walters, and Nathaniel Penn.
It’s All In the Wrist (and the Blatant Lying) By Michelle Weber Highlight In these troubling economic times, you can’t amass a giant art collection without robbing a few hundred museums any more.
Why Must We Tarnish the Glittering Legacy of Italo Disco with Petty Squabbles By Michelle Weber Highlight There’s no “I” in “Disco.” Oh wait, yes there is. This is why we can’t have nice things.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Tiffany Stanley, Raj Telhan, Alex Pareene, Nico Muhly, and Chris Heath.
Musicians Come Clean on How They Live, Create, and Thrive While Sober By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Parks, Cathy Newman, Zach Baron, Molly Priddy, and Christopher Solomon.
‘A Beautiful Contagion’: Anthony Bourdain By Krista Stevens Highlight “I just think it’s lonelier without him in the world.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Finlay Young, Katie Prout, Molly Crabapple, Sean Flynn, and Harley Rustad.
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.
