Longreads Essays Editor Sari Botton’s Guide to Pitching By Sari Botton Commentary What I’m looking for, what are the best ways to pitch, and what you can expect from working with me.
New York City’s Final Frontier: Underground By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What lays beneath New York City affects life above ground. One team is mapping the city’s below-ground infrastructure.
Exploiting Mexico’s Indigenous People to Get the West Its Drugs By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.
How Patagonia Continues to Operate As a Model of Responsible Capitalism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight With America’s public lands and the world’s climate under attack, the outdoor industry needs leaders more than ever and Patagonia is out in front.
Swabbing Filthy Surfaces for Tomorrow’s Cures By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary As the world faces a global health catastrophe from drug-resistant microbes, one scientists is searching the natural world for the antibiotics of the future.
The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
Architecture and Religious Bias: A California Case Study By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When a group of Sufis wanted to build a large sanctuary in the California hills, locals pushed back and the town grew divided.
The Making of ‘Meatballs’: Is Bill Murray Even Going to Show Up? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The 1979 summer camp comedy was Bill Murray’s breakout film. It also almost didn’t happen.
Talking with Multi-Genre Writer Walter Mosley By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.
Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
Father of Migrants By Alice Driver Feature “When it comes to the human body, everything can be trafficked. Migrants are a product in a system that breaks them down into lucrative parts, often until there is nothing left.”
These Law Enforcement Officers Wield Handguns and Vet Supplies By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Nevada’s “cow cops” work a unique beat where crimes range from cattle rustling, bovine homicide, and animal abuse.
Prog Rock: The Musical Genre That Won’t Die By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The “progressive” form of 1970s rock and roll still has as many devoted fans as it does diehard enemies. Why?
The New Age of Anxiety By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight W.H. Auden named it 70 years ago, and our latest age of anxiety is one of Xanax, fidget spinners, and constant swiping.
How One Porn Mogul Made His Fortune and Ruined Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.
A Portrait of the Artist as an Undocumented Immigrant By Longreads Feature A Mexican writer recalls undocumented life at a restaurant in New York and as a nanny in Connecticut.
Following John McPhee’s Path to ‘Oranges’ By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Fifty years after he published Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story to Florida to assess the state of American citrus.
David Sedaris Is Depressed By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight David Sedaris tallies a few of the many reasons he feels shame and sadness being an American in the time of Trump.
The ‘Smashing Things Together’ Approach to Editorial Illustration By Kjell Reigstad Commentary Art Director Kjell Reigstad’s insights on editorial illustration.
How Wells Fargo Bankers Gamed Customers to Make Sales Goals By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In 2016, Wells Fargo paid a $185 million fine for alleged fraud on its own customers without an admission of guilt. Has anything changed?
Haruki Murakami’s Advice to Young Writers By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In the essay “So What Shall I Write About?” from Monkey Business magazine, Haruki Murakami gives readers a glimpse into his creative process and how to become a novelist.
Inside the Canadian Credit Bubble, Where Too Many Canadians Live Beyond their Means By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Canada’s new middle class lives paycheck to paycheck, unwilling to give up certain lifestyle choices.
Coming of Age in the Army By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After a series of dead ends, a young man finds direction and identity in the Army. Despite his parents’ pride, the lingering question becomes: at what personal cost?
El Padre de Los Migrantes By Alice Driver Feature “Cuando se trata del cuerpo humano todo puede ser objeto de tráfico. Los migrantes son un producto en un sistema que los separa en partes lucrativas, hasta que muchas veces no queda nada.”
Treating Our Border As a Battle Zone By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Twenty years after Marines fatally shot an innocent 18-year old man in West Texas, the War on Drugs and militarization of the US-Mexico border has left many local people feeling less safe.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Justin Heckert, Peter Vigneron, Michael Lista, and Anthony Breznican.
America’s Small Farmers Need More Slaughterhouses By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A dearth of facilities able to process small farmers’ animals keeps costs up and prices high.
The ‘Artwashing’ of East Los Angeles By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In Boyle Heights, activists are fighting art galleries that represent the first wave of gentrification.
Getting Out the Message To Save Himself By Aaron Gilbreath Feature In Don Waters’ short story “Full of Days,” a grieving Las Vegas man uses an anti-abortion billboard to justify his own pained existence.
