Catholic Churches Built Secret Astronomical Features Into Churches to Help Save Souls By Longreads Feature After centuries of war, Catholicism and science reconciled over meridian lines.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
What Comes Next: Confronting a Post-Election America By Em Perper Reading List This week’s reading list is dedicated to marginalized voices. Some of these stories were written in the wake of this year’s election; others came before.
The Story of ‘Ella and Louis,’ 60 Years Later By Tom Maxwell Feature A century-defining album’s improbable genesis.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
What Can and Can’t be Learned From a Book By Syam Palakurthy Feature How learning to swim at 24 led Syam Palakurthy to first-hand lessons in gentrification.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
King-Killers in America (and the American Who Avenged the King) By Longreads Feature When Charles II regained the throne, he launched a global manhunt for the judges who had sentenced his father to death.
The Love of a Thousand Muskoxen: Grieving a Love Lost to Time and Sickness By Longreads Feature Years after spending a romantic month alone with a young photographer, Stephanie Land learns of his crippling chronic disease–and gets a glimpse of how much she meant to him.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Becoming One of the World’s 65 Million Refugees By Longreads Feature Majid Hussain keeps having to run.
The ‘Anti-Helicopter Parent’ Is Just as Insufferable as the Helicopter Parent By Mark Armstrong Commentary But by trying to Make Childhood Great Again, this parent misses a critical point about why kids are overscheduled.
A Stranger in the World: The Memoir of a Musician on Tour By Longreads Feature The Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay on DIY touring in the punk underground of the former Soviet Union.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
On Female Friendship and the Sisters We Choose for Ourselves By Chloe Caldwell Feature Essayist Chloe Caldwell on the “sisters” we choose for ourselves, and her close relationship with her surrogate younger sister, Cheryl Strayed’s daughter Bobbi.
Birth—and Rebirth—after Bulimia By Longreads Feature In pregnancy, writer Judy Tsuei found herself confronting the eating disorder she’d recovered from and her Chinese-American upbringing—and in the process, rebirthing herself as the kind of mother her daughter would need her to be.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the Longreads editors.
A Reading List About Utopias By Em Perper Reading List Here are five stories about utopian societies.
The Month That Killed the Sixties By Dana Snitzky Feature An oral history of how everything went to hell in December 1969. Fred Hampton was killed by the police, the hippie spirit died at Altamont, and the Weathermen went underground.
Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast By Longreads Feature The huge, hidden cost to severing the bond between art and science.
We Need to Talk About Money: Seven Stories About Personal Finance By Em Perper Reading List For so long, conversations about money were considered gauche. With every essay and podcast episode, that taboo is broken down.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer By Maria Bustillos Feature Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?
Girlhood Gone: Notes from the New Nashville By Susannah Felts Feature After returning home to Nashville following many years away, Susannah Felts assesses the city’s changing face through the eyes of a native, and as a woman raised in the South.
All Hail the Queen: Five Stories About Pageants By Em Perper Reading List In this list, you’ll find stories about drag royalty, the price of the perfect Western wardrobe, the perils of butt glue, and more.
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