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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 9, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.

Reading List

The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form

by Aaron Gilbreath June 10, 2020June 4, 2025

Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.

Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads February 28, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from James Hamblin, Josina Guess, Edward Carey, Paraic O’Donnell, and Ruth Graham.

Arts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement

by Aaron Gilbreath February 12, 2020October 19, 2022

American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.

Crime, Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Welcome to the Military-Educational Complex

by Aaron Gilbreath September 12, 2019October 19, 2022

The way schools choose to redesign themselves to protect students from shootings will determine how schools look, and how well students can learn in them, for decades to come.

Commentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts

Editor’s Roundtable: Escape the Podcast

by Longreads August 12, 2019October 19, 2022

Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.

I Had a Late-Term Abortion. President Trump and Pro-Lifers Have No Right to Call Me a Murderer.

by Sari Botton February 15, 2019October 19, 2022

A reported personal essay in which Margot Finn writes about the late-term abortion she under went at 29 weeks after it was discovered her baby had a severe brain abnormality; the online support group she helps run for parents who have had abortions because of poor prenatal diagnoses or maternal health issues; and how members […]