Earl King Deserves His Due By Krista Stevens Highlight Earl King’s “discs were among the rare ones where the words were as important as the music, where blues guitar was balanced with second-line piano, and where the B-sides were as strong as the A-sides.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Gus Garcia-Roberts and David Heath, Melissa Gira Grant, David Owen, Geoffrey Himes, and Traci Brimhall.
In Georgia, Citrus is Just Peachy By Krista Stevens Highlight “’You’re going to see Georgia citrus become the next Vidalia onion,’ Franklin says. ‘Soon they’ll be in every grocery store around.’”
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.
Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s a selection of profiles that resonated with us this year.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Nicholas Thompson, Gabriel Winant, Rachel Lord Elizondo, and Pamela Petro.
Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss By Krista Stevens Highlight “Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Gell, Donovan X. Ramsey, Hannah L. Drake, E. Alex Jung, and Lina Mounzer.
‘Breonna deserved better’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “She is more than an incident report that didn’t offer her dignity in death, to tell the truth of her murder.”
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.
John Lewis: ‘Get into Good Trouble’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “We are going to turn America around.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ibram X. Kendi, Wesley Morris, James Baldwin, Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason, and Josina Guess.
Jericho Brown: ‘Write into the Deep Dark Wreck’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Gabrielle Hamilton, Nicholas Thompson, Anna Badkhen, Alex Perry, and Caleb Johnson.
How A Nonagenarian Insists We Can Avoid The Age of Loneliness By Krista Stevens Highlight “He frames what we don’t know about our planet and what lives on it as a thrilling mystery, an opportunity to learn rather than a problem too daunting or, worse, too late to confront.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sandra Upson, Helen Ouyang, Francesca Mari, Jordan Ritter Conn, and Jesse Davis.
Photographing the Collective Experience of Self-Isolation By Krista Stevens Highlight “The photographer hopes his brief visits…can help break the oppressive monotony of a seemingly endless day, stretching on without distractions from the outside world.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Maria Elena Fernandez, Jake Bittle, Eva Holland, Naz Riahi, and Terra Fondriest.
“The Beauty of the Moments that Pass Each Day” By Krista Stevens Highlight “Building a relationship is important, because it makes the pictures secondary.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from James Hamblin, Josina Guess, Edward Carey, Paraic O’Donnell, and Ruth Graham.
How a Hurricane’s Trailing Winds Retold Willie Earle’s 1947 Mass Lynching By Krista Stevens Highlight “Even with a preponderance of evidence and testimonies, every man on trial got away with murder. This fact was not front-page news but tucked beneath odd stories called ‘Flashes of Life.'”
Can Mickey Mouse Coexist with Bears, Panthers, and Alligators? By Krista Stevens Highlight “The treasures of wild Florida — landscapes, waterways, flora, and fauna — will soon disappear without drastic efforts to save them.”
Sacrificed for the Super Bowl: The Wiping Out of an Atlanta Neighborhood By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Thirty years ago, the entire community of Lightning was destroyed to build the Georgia Dome. This oral history, told by displaced residents, compiles memories of a long-gone neighborhood.
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 Town That Camp Built By Krista Stevens Highlight “Key West’s brand of camp reflects Wolkowsky’s understanding — never on the nose, always sideways, a place where anonymity feels like an innate right.”
The Little Franchise That Couldn’t By Michelle Weber Highlight Ollie Gleichenhaus cooked up a mean hamburger. How come Americans are eating Big Macs and Whoppers instead of Ollieburgers?
The Life of One of the South’s Greatest Folklorists By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Ernest Matthew Mickler wrote the best-selling White Trash Cookbook, but he was actually a skilled Southern folklorist, not a cook.
Tell Me What Donut You Prefer, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are By Michelle Weber Highlight Have you ever thought really hard about donuts? Like, 7,000 words hard? Keaton Lamle did.
Back in the Kitchen: A Reading List About Gender and Food By Em Perper Reading List Eight must-read essays on how we cook and how we eat.
