“Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work?”
History
Posted inEditor's Pick
Semiquincentennial Blues
“I am yearning to reject something that is not even being sold to me.”
Posted inFeature
My Almond Archive
In southeastern Italy, almond groves hold centuries of local history. A granddaughter returns to gather the bitter and the sweet.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Tunnel 13
“A botched train robbery in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains left four men dead, led to an international manhunt, and helped usher forensic science into the modern age.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Made in the USA
“Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Shall We Play a Game?
“Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The First Tomato to Know Everything
“On gray literature and Webster’s Timeline History books.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
“That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture—of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: the jaws of history; war and piece(s); the last day of camp; stay a while; picture me rollin’.