• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
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

NPR

Posted inEditor's Pick

10 Years After Sandy Hook, a Family Finds Bits of Joy Amid Shards of Pain

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

“To Hensel, one of the big things about marking 10 years, is making it 10 years.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 16, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.

Posted inBusiness, Highlight, Quotes

Big Pharma Has No Comment, But Would Still Like All Your Tax Dollars

by michelleweber July 23, 2018October 19, 2022

From 2008 to 2016, the amount that state Medicaid programs spend on prescription drugs almost doubled. Why?

Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes

Why Were We All So Upset About Jason Bateman?

by michelleweber May 30, 2018October 19, 2022

Never underestimate the insidious, destructive power of gaslighting, especially public gaslighting.

The Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 25, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Pamela Colloff, Amanda Fortini, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Ira Glass, and Linda Holmes.

Posted inCurrent Events, Profiles & Interviews

How ProPublica and NPR Changed the Narrative About Maternity Care in America

by Lyz Lenz May 18, 2017October 19, 2022

Reporters Nina Martin and Renee Montagne go behind the scenes of their multi-part series on women who die in childbirth.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Four Dead in Ohio

by Sari Botton May 4, 2017October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from his 2005 book, Philip Caputo recalls reporting on the Kent State shootings for the Chicago Tribune.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Kent State Shootings, 35 Years Later

by Sari Botton May 4, 2017October 19, 2022

On the 47th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, NPR has this excerpt of 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings, former Chicago Tribune reporter Philip Caputo’s 2005 book about covering the massacre, in which members of the Ohio National Guard shot and killed unarmed students who were protesting the Vietnam War.

Posted inDiscussions, Story

‘No One Should be Doomed to Just One Story’: An ‘S-Town’ Roundtable

by Longreads April 20, 2017October 19, 2022

How we feel about a person’s privacy seems to correlate with how much control they have in the decision to open up.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Podcasts, Reading List, Uncategorized

Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy

by Emily Perper March 26, 2017October 19, 2022

Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?

Posts navigation

1 2 3 Older posts
Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • 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}