The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sophia Jones, Abigail Covington, Emily Raboteau, Mayukh Sen, and Barry Yeoman.
The Beauty of “Bl-Bl-Bl-Blue Moon” By Krista Stevens Highlight As a society, we need to challenge our assumption that stammering makes someone somehow deficient.
Editor’s Roundtable: Fans, ‘Grams and Installment Plans By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss recent stories in Inc., The Cut, and The Baffler.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Brian Trapp, Alison Kinney, Kate Wagner, Willy Staley, and Suzannah Showler.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ian Frisch, Niela Orr, Alison Fensterstock, Jill Lepore, and Austin Carr.
‘We All Live in the Great Database in the Sky’: On Silicon Valley and UFO Culture By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “The idea seems to be that we all live in the great database in the sky, occasionally summoning aliens with our minds.” Emily Harnett explores Silicon Valley’s appropriation of UFO culture.
This Is the Excellent Foppery of the World By Michelle Weber Highlight Mercury’s in retrograde, so it’s a great day to read this post.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Tiffany Stanley, Raj Telhan, Alex Pareene, Nico Muhly, and Chris Heath.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, Sean Patrick Cooper, and Priya Krishna.
Mind Your Mindfulness — You’re Playing Right Into Their Hands By Michelle Weber Highlight Is “mindfulness” not the cure for anxiety we thought it was? Dang, neoliberalism wrecks everything.
The Myth of the Singular Voice By Danielle Jackson Highlight Ahistorical narratives of racial uplift and singular heroes deny complexity and are devoid of real politics.
Take Two $275 Herbal Supplements and Don’t Call Me in the Morning By Michelle Weber Highlight Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.
Queer Eye Is an Upbeat Documentary of a Failing Social Order By Ben Huberman Highlight How a hard-not-to-love show glosses over the powers that produced its makeover subjects.
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 Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from David Dayen, M.H. Miller, T. Cooper, Caren Lissner, and Michael Adno.
The Crushing, Ever-Present Weight of Debt By Krista Stevens Commentary “We were nothing to these companies but a number in a database. And they fully controlled our fates.”
You’ll Dream What We Tell You To Dream and You’ll Like It By Michelle Weber Highlight Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.
Dorm Living for Adults By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The new Common co-living company isn’t as communal is it pretends.
How Lead Poisoned People of Color in East Chicago and Beyond By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.
Tearing the Heart from the Music Industry By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Digitization has removed the humanity from the music business, from collaboration to mutual respect.
The NFL Has Pimped Its Players for Too Long By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The disturbing parallels between professional football and the business of pimping
Destroying Music, One Playlist at a Time By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary Spotify’s corporate-branded playlists are not the solution to the music industry’s problems. They’re a new problem.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rana Dasgupta, Whitney Joiner, Jesse Barron, Kiese Laymon, and David Roth.
You Can’t Embarrass a Dog, or a Trump By Michelle Weber Highlight “Does he even know about… Let me stop you there. The answer is no.”
The Slacklash Is Here. You Should Do Something About It. By Michelle Weber Highlight Is the app that ate email eating into a whole lot more—like privacy, productivity, and personal time?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories by Sam Knight, Rick Perlstein, Ijeoma Oluo, Keziah Weir, and George Saunders.
Living In These Curated Times By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At The Baffler, Thomas Frank looks at the pros and cons and history of what we call “curation.”
LOL, JFK: The Hot Mess That Is U.S. Immigration Law By Michelle Weber Highlight Immigration lawyer Matt Cameron writes in The Baffler, laying bare the inequities, misconceptions, and plain messiness that characterize U.S. immigration law.
‘I felt dirty, a lesser person somehow than when I had left a week before.’ By Michelle Weber Commentary Rafia Zakaria’s essay in The Baffler on flying while Muslim is an important read that exposes a long list of things that most white, non-Muslim Americans never have to worry about while traveling.
The End of (Almost) Everything and (Almost) Everyone By Michelle Weber Highlight Writing in The Baffler, Laurie Penny explores what it will mean for the civilization to collapse slowly, because of climate change, rather than in a single nuclear bang.
