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.
What Does a Post-Apocalyptic Gated Community Look Like? By Ben Huberman Highlight For wealthy Americans, a dystopian future includes underground golfing in South Dakota.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Malcolm Harris, Tom Lamont, Melissa Jeltsen, Moe Tkacik, and Lavinia Spalding.
The Man Who Lived in a Hole in Hampstead Heath By Krista Stevens Highlight “He knew there were a lot of people just like him, irregularly employed, regulars in pubs, the owners of passports and phones and all the right charger leads, only with nowhere stable to live.”
Making Periods Green To Topple Tampax By Carolyn Wells Highlight Will a pain-relieving, CBD-infused, biodegradable cotton tampon be enough to beat Tampax?
Closing the Loop on Diabetes By Carolyn Wells Highlight Open source code could be the key to transforming the life of diabetics.
Closure in Service of Grief: the Septuagenarian Couple Who Locate Bodies Under Water By Krista Stevens Highlight “What Gene and Sandy offer is not the hope of rescue, but the solace of finality. They have spent years crisscrossing North America in the service of grief.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wendy C. Ortiz, Mary South, Jeremiah Moss, Nora Caplan-Bricker, and Samanth Subramanian.
The Nontrivial Pursuit of Quiz Glory By Ben Huberman Commentary Even in the age of the search engine, the pleasure of knowing the right answer endures.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Bazelon, Alex Ronan, Justine Harman, Emily Harnett, and Sam Leith.
William Gibson on How Science Fiction Portrays Reality By Krista Stevens Highlight “Every fiction about the future is like an ice-cream cone,” Gibson says, “melting as it moves into the future.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Craig Whitlock, Keren Blankfield, Ash Sanders, C.J. Hauser, and Brian Kevin.
The Poetry We Need and the Chitchat We Don’t By Longreads Commentary What we all need to hear right now, with special guest Marisa Siegel, Editor in Chief of The Rumpus.
Editor’s Roundtable: Democracy Needs Healing Crystals By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Politico.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Prachi Gupta, Tess McClure, Anna Wiener, Ismail Muhammad, and Alex McLevy.
Your Healing Crystals Are Part of the Capitalist Exploitation Machine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Healing crystals move from poor villages to first world consumers along a trail of death, ecological destruction, and capitalistic concentration of wealth.
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 Gabriel Thompson, Tim Murphy, Deborah Netburn, Tove Danovich, and Sirin Kale.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Anna Merlan, Sara Tatyana Bernstein, Connie Pertuz-Meza, and Emma Beddington.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Irin Carmon, Joe Bernstein, Robert Sanchez, Amanda Feinman, and Lois Beckett.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Molly Redden, Sarah Schweitzer, Andrew Dickson, Namwali Serpell, and Lukas Hermsmeier.
How the Guardian Went Digital By Longreads Feature Remaking itself from a little leftie newspaper to a powerhouse of internet journalism required experimentation, transparency, and embracing uncertainty.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.
How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How America stacks the deck against black farmers.
A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces By Sari Botton Highlight Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.
How Offshore Banking Destroyed Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight This is the story of how a handfull of mega-rich ended up hoarding most of the world’s wealth.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Steve Stecklow, Lynn Johnson, Steven Hyden, Morgan Jerkins, and Chris McGreal.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Hamburger, William Finnegan, Cecilie Maria Kallestrup and Katrine Jo Anderson, Hannah Jane Parkinson, and Amy Westervelt.
Waiting for Mental Health Care By Catherine Cusick Highlight Patients do ask for help with their mental health. And then they wait.
Arundhati Roy: “Fiction is a Universe” By Michelle Weber Highlight Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is the embodiment of concept that the personal is political, even (especially?) in her fiction.
