This week, we’re sharing stories from Angella d’Avignon, Katie Englehart, Caitlin Dewey, Eric Benson, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom.Â
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Who You Were Is Who You Are Is Who You Will Be
Some of the trappings might change, but you at 27 is fundamentally you at 37 is you at 47. La plus ça change!
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Christian Miller, Megan Rose, and Robert Faturechi; Robin Hemley; David Gauvey Herbert; Ian Parker; and Meghan Daum.
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Longreads Best of 2018: Essays
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.
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Rob Delaney and His Son’s Cancer
Actor and writer Rob Delaney shares his family’s experience with every parent’s nightmare: a very sick child.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Steve Stecklow, Lynn Johnson, Steven Hyden, Morgan Jerkins, and Chris McGreal.
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Traveling While Black
An excellent mini-anthology curated and edited by This Will Be My Undoing author Morgan Jerkins. In her introduction, Jerkins writes about her own experiences of having TSA rifle through the Marley twists atop her head while whitesplaining how to care for her hair. Included are pieces by Jamilah Lemieux on the pleasures and pains of […]
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Going the Distance: A Reading List on Running
Six stories about running and the human drive to push through pain.
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Gene Therapy: God Discusses Its Future Possibilities
Unraveling the potential of the double helix could render many of our current medical modalities laughable.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Ben Blum, Reeves Wiedeman, Mizuho Aoki, Amy Wright, and Sarah Scoles.