Getting Up When You Fall From the Sky By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Fear coursed through my veins. A horrible metallic taste, worse than bile, rose in my throat. The taste of terror.”
All Aboard for an Adventure in Inequality By Krista Stevens Highlight “‘Did you enjoy your tour? Carrot-ginger soup for lunch today!’ And please don’t look at the corpse over there.”
The Music of the Cave By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Though the team didn’t find the metal library, Armstrong put the adventure ‘up there with the moon landing.'”
The Dark Side of Birding By Krista Stevens Highlight “Undeniably, eBird … brings birders together and allows for rapid information sharing. It’s also created new—and sometimes contentious—etiquette and social dynamics.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Smiley, Reid Forgrave, Susan Casey, Michael Rosenberg, and Lucy Jones.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Barton Gellman, Latria Graham, Teju Cole, Samuel Ashworth, and Shanna Baker.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Barack Obama, Andrea Pitzer, Hannah Dreier, Ismail Muhammad, Niela Orr, Hanif Abdurraqib, Danielle A. Jackson, and Cassie Owens, and Karolina Waclawiak.
‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”
‘I Saw It on Instagram, I Had to Come’: The Desire to Document Ourselves in Nature By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Are Instagrammers and selfie culture destroying the outdoors? At Outside, Lisa Chase sets off to find out.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Gabrielle Hamilton, Nicholas Thompson, Anna Badkhen, Alex Perry, and Caleb Johnson.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Maria Elena Fernandez, Jake Bittle, Eva Holland, Naz Riahi, and Terra Fondriest.
“Leave Us to Our Peace”: A Pact Made in Love By Krista Stevens Highlight “The way we die is changing. So, too, is the way we think about dying — and about the opportunity, even the right, to die at a time and place of our choosing.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Wurtzel, Nick Martin, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, David Wolman, and Jason Turbow.
Finding Solace in the Charged Particles of the Aurora Borealis By Krista Stevens Highlight “Cree First Nations believe ‘the northern lights are dancing spirits of loved ones who have passed on.’”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Van Brocklin, Brian Merchant, Christine Fennessy, Peter Schjeldahl, and Gabriella Paiella.
How Rob Krar Helps Others Outrun Depression By Krista Stevens Highlight “I think a good way to describe my depression is an inability to feel happiness. It’s just this gray zone. I have this beautiful life that I can’t appreciate.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Keegan Hamilton, Mike Maciag, Brian Goldstone, Nick Heil, and Megan Reynolds.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from James Carroll, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Ben Steverman, Eva Holland, and Ian Brown.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Drew Magary, Amy Wallace, Leif Reigstad, Pam Houston, and Ziya Tong.
‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jayson Greene, Theresa Breuer, Christa Parravani, Alexandra Kimball, and Casey Taylor.
Where the Men are Scarier than the Minefield on the Mountain By Krista Stevens Highlight “No longer should women feel weak.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Jen Gann, Christine H. Lee, John Birdsall, and Anna Callaghan.
Maintaining Mental Health as a Rescuer in the Grand Tetons By Krista Stevens Highlight “What was important was that each of us had been there; we all, in another way, had blood on our hands—we had all shared the same experiences. We needed each other.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Parks, Cathy Newman, Zach Baron, Molly Priddy, and Christopher Solomon.
‘I Don’t Know What Else to Do. So I Run.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”
The Chance of a Lifetime By Krista Stevens Highlight If you had one chance at the adventure of a lifetime, would you go despite the dangers?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ethan Watters, Rachel Monroe, Barry Yeoman, Tom Scocca, and Sarah Gailey.
It was Mr. Henthorn on the Cliff with a Swift Shove By Krista Stevens Highlight Oh, your first wife died in a freak accident too?
What should we do this weekend, go to the movies or sail a handmade raft to Polynesia? By Michelle Weber Highlight Don McIntyre is not a man who shies away from a challenge — an understatement if there ever was one.