• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
Skip to content
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
Longreads

Longreads

Longreads : The best longform stories on the web

  • Support Us
Support Us

New York Times

Posted inUncategorized

Homeless in the City Where He Was Once Mayor

by Krista Stevens May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

“After a life spent as a pillar of Bend’s civic life, Mr. Coyner had somehow reached a point of near total destitution, surrounded by the prosperity he had helped create.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

by Seyward Darby March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How the 1% Runs an Ironman

by Peter Rubin December 7, 2022December 7, 2022

“Inside the world of Ironman XC, which makes the endurance contest a little more endurable — for executives who can afford to pay.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘Dying Inside’: Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 8, 2022November 11, 2022

Repeated abuse, prolonged lockdowns, overlooked complaints, and a surge in suicide attempts at a juvenile detention center.

Posted inEditor's Pick

This Is Life in the Metaverse

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 11, 2022October 28, 2022

“Every hour of the day and night with the gamers, parents, insomniacs, preteens and aspiring comedians who are the earliest adopters of the immersive, three-dimensional internet that Mark Zuckerberg has bet the future of his company on.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Unseen Scars of Those Who Kill Via Remote Control

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 22, 2022October 19, 2022

A devastating, well-reported story on the drone program of the U.S. Air Force and the lack of mental-health support for drone operators. Because they were not deployed, they seldom got the same recovery periods or mental-health screenings as other fighters. Instead they were treated as office workers, expected to show up for endless shifts in […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Surprisingly Messy Culture Wars Within The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 31, 2022October 19, 2022

“While the crossword remains a word game mainstay, what’s appropriate has changed with the times.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

52 Years in 11 Days: A Son, Facing Death, Finds His Father

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 11, 2021October 19, 2022

“After struggling with cancer for years, Sam Anthony was running out of time. Before he died, he found the courage to mail a letter that he had long been afraid to send.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 29, 2021October 19, 2022

“After 18 months of pandemic parenting isolation, the writer Jon Mooallem knew just where the cure might lie: a minor-league baseball game in eastern Washington.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Personal History of the C-Section

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 22, 2021October 19, 2022

“When my daughter’s delivery went off the script I had imagined, it made me wonder about what we ask from our birth stories.”

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 17 Older posts
Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice for California Users
  • Press
  • RSS Feed
  • Opt-out preferences

Part of the

family

© 2023 Longreads. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}