The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wright Thompson, Fred Kaplan, Tori Marlan, Casey Gerald, and Sarah Everts.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jessica Schulberg, Patrick Strickland, Shanna B. Tiayon, Sarah Berns, and Madeleine Aggeler.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Greg Jaffe, Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques, Jeremy Lybarger, and Cat Cardenas and Christian Wallace.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Katie Engelhart, Katy Vine, Zach Baron, and Colin Dickey.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Greg Jaffe, Justine van der Leun, Diana Moskovitz, Katy Vine, and Brian VanHooker.
Sold! On Going (Once!) to Auctioneer School By Krista Stevens Highlight “Five dollar now five gidibid five dollar now ten gidibid ten, ten now fifteen digibigit now fifteen now fifteen gidibid, now twenty?”
Brené Brown: ‘I think we’re looking for each other.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “In a country where nobody can agree on much, we seem to agree on Brené Brown.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Amanda Hess, Robert Draper, Emily Gogolak, Mark O’Connell, and Gabrielle Bellot.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lakeidra Chavis, Jodi S. Cohen, Jennifer Smith Richards, Heidi Blake, Zandria F. Robinson, Michael Hall, and Eve Peyser.
Willie Nelson’s 50-year Love Affair with Trigger, His Faithful Guitar By Krista Stevens Highlight “A guitar sounds better as it gets older, just like a Stradivarius does.”
A Town Split By a Play About the 1980s AIDS Epidemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Sometimes art can challenge viewers enough to change them. Sometimes art just makes the narrow-minded angry.
Editor’s Roundtable: Antidotes to Loneliness (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Neena Satija, Dan McDougall, Leslie Jamison, and Amos Barshad.
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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Michael J. Mooney, Elisa Gabbert, Nicole Chung, and Ashley Fetters.
Living in a Tree House: Sybil Rosen Remembers Blaze Foley By Krista Stevens Highlight “And if I’ve learned anything from Blaze Foley, it’s that memory is like a thought: it weighs nothing. You can’t even hold it in your hand.”
The Case of the Poisoned Calves By Catherine Cusick Highlight Someone poisoned eighteen of Buck Birdsong’s calves in the past four years. But who? And why?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Laurie Penny, Mina Kimes, Skip Hollandsworth, and David Marchese.
The Surprising Case of One Houston Robber By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The alleged ring leader of a group of violent armored car robbers isn’t the person friends and family knew.
28 Voices From the Storm By Krista Stevens Highlight The before, during, and after of how Hurricane Harvey battered Texas for five days.
Eating the Texas State Fair By Pam Mandel Highlight “He was beginning to think the point of the revelry was to celebrate gluttony, and he wept for the world that his boy would have inherited, had he lived long enough to do so.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jay Caspian Kang, Ryan Goldberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Andrew Richdale, and Ferris Jabr.
Exploiting Mexico’s Indigenous People to Get the West Its Drugs By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.
In a League of His Own: One Man’s Mission to Make Moviegoing Fun Again By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.
Coming of Age in the Army By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After a series of dead ends, a young man finds direction and identity in the Army. Despite his parents’ pride, the lingering question becomes: at what personal cost?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories by Ijeoma Oluo, Michael Hall, Erika Hayasaki, Jerry Saltz, and Caren Chesler.
Weighing the Impact of Nationalized Medicine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In Texas Monthly, Michael Hall surveys the Texans whose health has dramatically improved after receiving medical coverage through the Affordable Care Act, and the group who labored to get them enrolled.
The Spectacle of Crime: On Detectives, Mysteries, and Dead Girls By Em Perper Reading List A reading list about fictional detectives and the authors who mastermind their literary crime-solving, as well as real-life detectives searching for the truth.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
