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Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts, Sports

Editor’s Roundtable: Gossip, Dirt, and Reality (Podcast)

by Longreads June 3, 2019October 19, 2022

Longreads editors discuss stories in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Kotaku, and The Globe and Mail.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 31, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from James Carroll, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Ben Steverman, Eva Holland, and Ian Brown.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science Fiction

The Great Cannabis Experiment: Ian Brown on Growing Your Own Weed

by Krista Stevens May 27, 2019October 19, 2022

Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.

Posted inCrime, Culture, Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Canada’s Breeding Ground for Hate

by Aaron Gilbreath May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.

Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

One Foot (and Paw) in Front of the Other: How Far Would You Go For Your Dog?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 17, 2018October 19, 2022

What would you sacrifice for your pet? When Shawna Richer’s dog, Scout, became paralyzed, she had to make a choice: would she put her down, or do whatever it took to save her?

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Scholar of Mazes: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse

by Krista Stevens December 3, 2018October 19, 2022

“I stepped forward into a darkness that I’m still trying to find my way out of more than 40 years later.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads February 9, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Mark Arax, David Grann, Stephanie Nolen, Eleanor Cummins, and David Marchese.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature, Uncategorized

Struggling to Balance Business and Conservation in the Amazon Basin

by Aaron Gilbreath February 8, 2018October 19, 2022

Driving through the Amazon Basin on a single road to see whether Brazil can balance economic development with rainforest conservation.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men

by Krista Stevens September 22, 2017October 19, 2022

Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Letters to My Molester: Unraveling a Decade of Childhood Abuse

by Krista Stevens April 24, 2017October 19, 2022

Karen Durrie examines the feelings of complicity that encouraged her to correspond with her attacker.

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