The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jessica Bruder, Garrett M. Graff, Suleika Jaouad, Gulnaz Saiyed, and Daniel Riley.
Man vs. Gig: Doug Schifter’s Last Stand By Michelle Weber Highlight An important look at a dysfunctional industry, and a master class in profile writing.
It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight No time in human history has presented clearer, more compelling evidence that something unexplained is interacting with human beings, be they aliens or UFOs.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Edith Zimmerman, Eli Saslow, William Brennan, Meredith Haggerty, and Kelly Conaboy.
Fast or Slow: What’s the Best Way to Die? By Sari Botton Highlight Sometimes death takes a torturously slow, scenic route.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Moira Donegan, Leonora LaPeter Anton, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Linda Besner, and Geraldine DeRuiter.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sarah Smith, Mattathias Schwartz, John Woodrow Cox, Justin Heckert, and Jonah Weiner.
How Angry Racists Plotted to Kill Somali Refugees in Kansas By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A small town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. A militia splinter group wanted them dead.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne and Nina Martin, Michael Hobbes, Rebecca Traister, Naima Coster, and Kristen Roupenian.
When to (Not) Have Kids By Sari Botton Commentary At a bleak moment in human history, these essays explore the case for not reproducing.
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism By Danielle Jackson Highlight The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Luke O’Brien, Jen Gann, Tom Lamont, Norimitsu Onishi, and Sam Knight.
Bronx Rapper Cardi B Became a Pop Sensation, But Will She Make it Last? By Danielle Jackson Highlight Understanding what the rapper means to her audience, beyond the flash of celebrity.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Roxane Gay, Katherine Heiny, Alexandra Starr, Dionne Searcey, and Anna Silman.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from David Dobbs, Rachel Aviv, Max Read, Holly George-Warren, and Bianca Bosker.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Ellen Pao, Henry Wismayer, Taylor Harris, and Jeff Maysh.
Body Positivity Nudges Plus-Size Fashion Forward By Sari Botton Highlight Despite a high demand for it, plus-size fashion has been largely neglected and poorly executed by major brands. But that’s starting to change.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Steve Kolowich; Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg; Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Carolyn Murnick; and Jamie Lauren Keiles.
Processing Clues About a Friend’s True Identity to Make Sense of Her Murder By Sari Botton Highlight In an excerpt from her memoir, Carolyn Murnick tries to piece together the stabbing murder of her childhood friend.
Meet ‘The Mooch,’ Your New White House Communications Director By Mark Armstrong Highlight The money manager who once trashed Trump now has a job in the White House.
Despair All Ye Who Enter Into the Climate Change Fray By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary A climate change feature at New York Magazine leads a scientist to take on its extraordinary claims.
An Ode to Black Families: A Reading List By Danielle Jackson Reading List This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.
Before Becoming an Art Critic, Jerry Saltz Wanted to Draw 10,000 Dante-Inspired Altarpieces By Ben Huberman Highlight On the project that almost drove Jerry Saltz into despair.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List This week, we’re featuring stories by Reeves Wiedeman, Monica Mark, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Daniel Duane, and Danny Chau.
‘BRB, Killing ISIS Guys’: An American Bro in Syria By Sari Botton Highlight When Brace Belden left his job in San Francisco to fight ISIS, he had no idea he’d become a prominent figure in the Syrian Civil War.
Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy By Emily Perper Reading List Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Amy Wallace, Katherine Laidlaw, Lisa Miller, Porochista Khakpour, and Lauren Schwartzberg.
The Rules For Being John Hinckley By Michelle Weber Highlight In a fascinating New York magazine profile of John Hinckley, recently released, writer Lisa Miller lays out the conditions of his freedom.
Empathy, Schmempathy. By Pam Mandel Highlight “Stronger Together,” the Clinton-campaign slogan, sounded more like an invitation to join a food co-op than a call to arms.
Rachel Cusk on Eschewing her ‘Cuskness’ For Her Alter-Ego in ‘Outline’ and ‘Transit’ By Sari Botton Highlight Rachel Cusk talks to Heidi Julavits about the “trench” she digs between herself and representations of herself, in both memoir and “autofiction.”
