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Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing

by Peter Rubin January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

“Corky Lee’s images do something we do not usually imagine photographs can do. Rather than merely showing the visible, they are portraits of structural forces.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Human_Fallback

by Carolyn Wells December 13, 2022December 14, 2022

“I’m not a bot is exactly what a bot would say.”

A graphic that says "Longreads Best of 2021: Reported Essays" with a typewriter in the right-side background.
Posted inStory

Best of 2021: Reported Essays

by Longreads December 9, 2021October 13, 2022

The pieces that moved us the most this year.

Posted inReading List

The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form

by Aaron Gilbreath June 10, 2020November 25, 2022

Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Please Don’t You Be My Neighbor

by Krista Stevens January 28, 2020October 19, 2022

“To watch those people vanish and be replaced by people who shine like glass, who cut through the sidewalks like knives but reflect nothing back, has been another scraping out. Am I still here? I don’t know anyone here anymore.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Cash/Consent

by Sari Botton September 26, 2019October 19, 2022

Lorelei Lee reflects on her career in sex work and pornography, the gradations of consent in the industry, and the ways in which radical feminists and the religious right fight to keep sex work criminalized.

graffiti reading "the feminists are taking over!"
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Can the Political Override the Personal?

by michelleweber June 28, 2018October 19, 2022

“Harmful to Minors” author Judith Levine mines her past contradictions to sketch out the challenge of a being a young woman simultaneously burgeoning into her feminist and her sexual selves.

Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Peter Mayer, the Fiery Sage of Publishing

by Aaron Gilbreath May 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Honoring Peter Mayer, founder of Overlook Press, and one of “the stars of book publishing.”

A visiting room in the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 4, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Chris Outcalt, Corie Brown, Daniel Immerwahr, Toniann Fernandez, and Karen Abbott.

Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes

Tangled in the Infinite War

by michelleweber May 3, 2018October 19, 2022

Superheroes they used to stick up for the underdog and punch a lot of Nazis. Now, they fight villains who look a lot like themselves. Who are the baddies now?

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