Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
The Hate Is Coming From Inside the House
The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Darkness on the Edge of Cougartown
On the brink of 50, Sarah Miller makes peace with being 10 years older than her boyfriend, and stops wasting time wishing she were younger.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Newton, William Langewiesche, Sarah Miller, Hafizah Geter, and Shannon Keating.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and David Barstow, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Jaeah J. Lee, Shelley Puhak, and Sarah Miller.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Art of the Pan
Sarah Miller recalls her days in the ’90s as a fickle movie critic.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Movie Assassin
This personal essay by Sarah Miller has gone viral and divided Twitter. Those who love the piece — about Miller’s struggle in 1996 to get away with panning “The English Patient” for an alt weekly paper — appreciate her brutal honesty and her irreverence toward the Serious Film establishment.
Posted inBlog Post, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
An Unapologetic Plea for Your Help Funding More Personal Essays
Longreads’ Essays Editor on the importance of budgeting for personal narratives.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Doctor Will See You Now
A personal essay in which Sarah Miller eulogizes her mother’s black sheep brother.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
In Guatemala on the Wrong Bus
Sarah Miller travels in exactly the way she’d hoped to avoid.