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Harvey Weinstein

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Storykiller and His Sentence: Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein

by Sari Botton March 12, 2020October 19, 2022

Rebecca Solnit considers Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence through the lens of storytelling, and who gets to do it now that at least two men who were “in charge of stories” — Weinstein and Woody Allen — have in the past week lost so much of their power, and women are now finding their voices.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

Same Sh*itty Media Men, Different Day

by Sari Botton October 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Rebecca Traister asks how NBC can possibly change its misogynist culture if it keeps the same bad actors at the top.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Ronan Farrow Depicts a Chilling Cover-up at NBC

by Sari Botton October 14, 2019October 19, 2022

Rebecca Traister reads Ronan Farrow’s new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, and realizes that those at NBC who colluded to obstruct Farrow’s ground-breaking reporting on Harvey Weinstein remain in charge.

Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story

‘We Are All Responsible’: How #MeToo Rejects the Bystander Effect

by Soraya Roberts February 22, 2019October 19, 2022

The classic “Bystander Effect” blames a lack of intervention on diffusion of responsibility. That doesn’t fly anymore.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners

by Matt Giles April 16, 2018October 19, 2022

This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.

Posted inBlog Post, Media, Unapologetic Women

Hollywood and ‘Disaster Feminism’

by Danielle Tcholakian January 5, 2018October 19, 2022

The women of Hollywood are seizing this moment.

Posted inUncategorized

Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting

by Longreads December 15, 2017October 19, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.

Posted inNonfiction

Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting on Sexual Misconduct

by mikedang December 15, 2017October 13, 2022

Investigations into sexual misconduct perpetrated by powerful men across several industries had the biggest impact in 2017.

Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Current Events, Media

Gossip and News, Strange Bedfellows

by Danielle Tcholakian November 20, 2017October 19, 2022

Recent stories exposing powerful, abusive men suggest there’s value in taking rumors seriously.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Myth of the Male Bumbler

by michelleweber November 16, 2017October 19, 2022

“Allow me to make a controversial proposition: Men are every bit as sneaky and calculating and venomous as women are widely suspected to be.”

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