The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, our editors recommend stories by Seth Harp, Alanna Mitchell, Cezary Podkul, Alex Vuocolo, and Loren Grush.
The Skeleton, the Meat, and the Bones: A Chat With the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue By Brendan O'Meara Feature In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Jana Meisenholder about writing “King of the Hill.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Paula Lavigne and Tom Junod, Lex Pryor, Sarah Treleaven, Zack Graham, and Laura Jedeed.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from George Packer, Lindsay Peoples-Wagner and Morgan Jerkins, Paul Solotaroff, Lauren Owens Lambert, and Oscar Schwartz.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Skip Hollandsworth, Kory Grow and Jason Newman, Jordan Kisner, Clare Fieseler, and Jessica Klein.
‘We Are Alive’: Six Longreads About Music By Krista Stevens Feature The soundtrack of my life goes back a long way. Here are six longreads about music, for the love of it.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jill McCabe Johnson, Stacey Anderson, Megan Pillow, Barry Blanchard, and Elizabeth Rush.
Justin Townes Earl: The Saint of Lost Causes By Krista Stevens Highlight Fellow singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield, who frequently toured with Earle, described his gift more simply: “He was able to explain trouble better than most.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Amirah Mercer, Jason Motlagh, Esmé E. Deprez, and Michael Paulson.
Rush Drummer Neil Peart: Master Student By Krista Stevens Highlight Neil Peart “was brilliant enough to skip two grades, starting high school at 12. He began drum lessons, practicing for a full year without an actual kit.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Timothy Snyder, Austin Carr, James Murdock, Myriam Lahouari, and Brian Hiatt.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lucas Waldron, Nadia Sussman, Thalia Beaty, and Ryan Gabrielson, as well as Jamil Smith, Cynthia Tucker, Venkatesh Rao, and Sirin Kale.
If You Love the Music of the Carter Family, Thank Leslie Riddle By Michelle Weber Highlight “First, you exclude black people from the festivals. Then write them out by not recording them. And pretty soon, ‘you have this manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.'”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wesley Lowery, Sarah Bellamy, Shawn Yuan, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and Gabrielle Bellot.
Greta Thunberg: “We Just Have to Care About Each Other More” By Krista Stevens Highlight “It has become a disconcerting pattern for Thunberg appearances: Greta tells the adults they are fools and their plans are lame and shortsighted. They still give her a standing ovation.”
‘What’s this guy doing loose in Malheur County?’ By Michelle Weber Highlight He faked an insanity defense, got out, and immediately committed another crime, and this time people are dead. He’s going to plead insanity again.
Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion By David Gambacorta Feature Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sarah Weinman, Stephen Rodrick, Bianca Giaever, James Ross Gardner, and Megan Pugh.
‘What if people found out?’ On the White Male Suicide Epidemic By Krista Stevens Highlight “I got home and went back to the fetal position for a week.”
Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone? By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.
One Dollar a Word? That’ll Be $28,000 By Matt Giles Commentary Fresh off Watergate, Carl Bernstein next turned to expose the connection between the CIA and newspapers. For his efforts, he was paid $28,000. Inside one of publishing’s biggest boondoggles.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Donna Minkowitz, Stephen Rodrick, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Nadia Berenstein, and Shanna Baker.
Johnny Depp: We Are Concerned By Krista Stevens Highlight Johnny Depp’s out of cash and he really has no idea why.
In the Wake of Weinstein and #MeToo, Why Does R. Kelly Still Have an Audience? By Danielle Jackson Highlight Women of color who have been singled out by sexual predators deserve our collective fury too.
Fats Domino’s Secret to Writing Great Songs: ‘Bein’ Lucky’ By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Fats Domino passed away on Oct. 25 at the age of 89.
Trans, Homeless, and Turning Tricks to Survive By Krista Stevens Highlight Homeless trans teens: America’s most vulnerable population.
The End of ‘Rolling Stone’ As We Know It By Matt Giles Commentary Jann Wenner created a magazine that lasted for 50 years because he understood nostalgia sells.
Eileen Myles: There’s No Escaping History By Sari Botton Commentary The poet and one-time presidential candidate isn’t the least bit surprised by the state of our union.
Revisiting the History of the Oakland Raiders Courtesy of Hunter S. Thompson By Matt Giles Commentary The Oakland Raiders are moving to Las Vegas, so let’s remember when Hunter S. Thompson tried to embed with the NFL’s strangest team.
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