The Atlantic: 10 Essential #Longreads on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda from The Atlantic archives theatlantic: From The Atlantic archives, ten articles on terrorism, Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and more. Visit The Atlantic for most After Bin Laden coverage Hunting The Taliban In Las Vegas, Robert D. Kaplan, September 2006 In trailers just minutes away from the […]
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rollingstone: If you’re in NYC, please come to our Night of Long-Form Journalism panel Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Housing Works, which we’re presenting in conjunction with Longreads. To get you ready for the panel, we’ve collected a couple great stories from each of the three panelists: Jeff Goodell, Brian Hiatt and Rob Sheffield. Jeff […]
Gerald Marzorati, a former editor of the New York Times Magazine, is an Assistant Managing Editor of the Times “Early Innings,” by Roger Angell. (The New Yorker, Feb. 24, 1992) (sub. required) America’s baseball belletrist here writes of how he came to love the game. “The Silent Season of a Hero,” by Gay Talese. (Esquire, […]
The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good doree: Guy Lawson, “The Stoner Arms Dealers,” Rolling Stone Jessica Hopper, “Wild Flag: An Eight-Part Examination,” Nashville Scene S.J. Culver, “On Expectations (And a Writer’s Lack of Shame),” The Awl Ben Kafka, “Pushing Paper,” Lapham’s Quarterly Nitsuh Abebe, “SXSW Diary: Pitchfork’s…
The Lisa Simpson Book Club: Lisa’s Longreads lisasimpsonbookclub: 1. A Convesation With Gore Vidal (The Atlantic) Gore Vidal may have kissed more boys than Lisa, that didn’t stop her from enjoying The City and the Pillar. For a quicker (let more substantive) taste of the Ambrosia Vidal, read this 2009 interview with John Meroney in […]
Front of Book: Manhattan Transfers: A Longreads List frontofbook: The City can be a beast, as the New York Times pointed out again this week with a fond look at one writer’s former New York apartment (inviting remembrances from readers), and a downtown vet’s bittersweet farewell. Because saying hello to “All That” is as difficult […]
jaredbkeller: I often find that urbanism and urban living are overly romanticized, more often by citydwellers themselves: Stumbling through concrete caravans dripping with mystique, a day-to-day narrative of tempered chaos, or an odd catharsis as told through the lens of sidewalk meet-cute. I often long for life closer to the wilderness, clogged by forests and dirty roads, but […]
maria bustillos: my #longreads #list : WikiLeaks dorkismo: Here is my entry for the #longreads #list: five essential things to read about WikiLeaks. Julian Assange’s 2006 essays, “State and Terrorist Conspiracies” and “Conspiracies as Governance”, which contextualize the author’s efforts better than any interview or article has yet done. 3,164 words:…
pegb: Pirate’s Booty by Dave Gardetta Technosexual: One Man’s Tale of Robot Love by Addy Dugdale Et Tu, Brooklyn? by Allison Silverman The Golden Suicides by Nancy Jo Sales Addiction Files: Recovering From Drug Addiction, Without Abstinence by Maia Szalavitz Addiction Files: How Do We Define Recovery? by Maia Szalavitz Secret of AA: After 75 Years, […]
Logan Sachon is a writer and editor based in Portland. *** Rare cancer seen in 41 homosexuals 1981. New York Times. Lawrence K. Altman. 903 words / 3.5 minutes No mention of AIDS, no utter of HIV, but this is where mainstream media’s coverage of AIDS starts, with the New York Times first mention of […]
Kate Silver: Bringing Up Kennedy: A Longreads List frontofbook: The February Vanity Fair is out, and in the feature well is a look at the JFK inaugural, 50 years later. (Justin Bieber’s youthful mug adorns the cover, not Jack’s.) It seems like, oh, just last month, the mag excerpted Greg Lawrence’s Jackie as Editor. Because […]
Capital New York: 7 great longreads by Tom Robbins capitalnewyork: I was introduced to Tom Robbins while I was in college. My mentor at the time was the editor of the Industrial Workers of the World’s newspaper and he printed packets of reporting for me. I gobbled it up, especially Mr. Robbins’ muckraking at the […]
Michelle Legro: Top Longreads for Animal Behavior michellelegro: They ignored the signs: 100,000 fish floating belly-up in an Arkansas River, 5,000 blackbirds falling out of the sky. Please feel free leave your cat with me when the rapture comes. Until then, enjoy these three longreads about animals and their uncanny behavior. Darcy Frey, “The Bears… […]
December was an incredible month for the Longreads community. Thank you to everyone who has shared, discovered, Instapaper’ed and Flipboarded your favorite longreads. From the daily #longreads recommendations to the year-end “Top 5 Longreads of 2010” lists, you’re all proving that the desire for in-depth storytelling, online and offline, is strong—and here to stay. Last […]
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