The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Amanda Mull, Allegra Hobbs, Andrew O’Hagan, Andrew Kay, and Joe Veix.
The ‘Treasonous’ Teens Living in One Nation Under Guns By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Three stories on youth activism in conservative towns shed an interesting light on the national gun debate.
K.D. Lang Will Indulge Your Craving for “Constant Craving” By Krista Stevens Commentary K.D. Lang’s seminal album Ingénue is 25 years old. Penelope Green talks to K.D. Lang about how she’s evolved as an artist in the last quarter century.
The Amateur Sleuth Who Can’t Let One Case Rest By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.
You Can’t ‘Never Forget’ the Holocaust if You Haven’t Learned About It By Sari Botton Highlight A new study shows that knowledge about the Holocaust is dangerously at an all-time low.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahawa Haile; Hannah Dreier; Rukmini Callimachi; Mary Anne Mohanraj, Keah Brown, S. Bear Bergman, Matthew Salesses, and Kiese Laymon; and Molly Fitzpatrick.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lili Loofbourow, Rachel Monroe, Benjamin Weiser, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Megan Greenwell.
The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice By Ben Huberman Highlight Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it — in Trinidad.
Jimmy Buffet® Incorporated By Krista Stevens Highlight Jimmy Buffett is a master at marketing his beach bum lifestyle to the T.G.I.F crowd.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aly Raisman, Joseph Williams, Jenna Wortham, Mayukh Sen, and Sirin Kale.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Chang, Kiera Feldman, Motoko Rich, David J. Unger, and Nicole Chung.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Susan Chira and Catrin Einhorn, John Branch, Amanda Mull, Mimi O’Donnell and Adam Green, and Mansi Choksi.
Bringing Home the Bodies: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet By Krista Stevens Highlight How 12 sherpas recovered two bodies from the 27,000-foot mark of Mount Everest.
Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting on Sexual Misconduct By Mike Dang Commentary Investigations into sexual misconduct perpetrated by powerful men across several industries had the biggest impact in 2017.
The Soundtrack to Healing on the Road to Recovery By Krista Stevens Highlight How a family of five learned how to be a family of four.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Luke O’Brien, Jen Gann, Tom Lamont, Norimitsu Onishi, and Sam Knight.
A Lonely Death: The Extreme Isolation of Japan’s Elderly By Krista Stevens Highlight Many members of Japan’s rapidly aging population live isolated, solitary lives in massive apartment communities filled with people.
How We Write About the Nazis Next Door By Catherine Cusick Highlight The Nazi next door is still a Nazi. If The New York Times can’t cover that story responsibly, The Atlantic can.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Anand Gopal and Azmat Khan, Claire Dederer, Dale Maharidge, Leslie Jamison, and Nina Coomes.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from C.J. Chivers, Sheelah Kolhatkar, Libby Copeland, Amanda Petrusich, and Bryan Menegus.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ronan Farrow, Diana Nyad, Rachel Monroe, Ross Andersen, and Teresa Mathew.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Roxane Gay, Katherine Heiny, Alexandra Starr, Dionne Searcey, and Anna Silman.
The Teen Girls Who Defied Boko Haram By Krista Stevens Highlight The bravest members of the Nigerian resistance are the teenage girls who refuse to become tools of terrorism.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, David Zax, Christopher Glazek, Farah Stockman, and Alex Mar.
TFW You’re Training the Worker That Will Take Your Job Away By Krista Stevens Highlight What do you do when you’ve only got a G.E.D and your high-paying union job goes to Mexico?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, Vivian Ho, Christopher Goffard, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Alex Pappademas.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Danielle McNally, Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, Michelle Dean, and John Knight.
When Op-Eds Relitigate Facts By Catherine Cusick Commentary The New York Times has standards. Its Op-Eds just don’t always have to meet them.
Junk Food is 21st Century Imperialism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The first in a New York Times’ series about global obesity looks at the place of processed foods in Brazil.
Harvard’s About-Face on Michelle Jones’s Acceptance By Sari Botton Commentary The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.
