The Overdose Video: America’s Latest Genre of Horror Film By Krista Stevens Highlight Posting videos of the drug addicted in active overdose to social media in a bid to publicly shame them to get clean is as about as effective as you’d expect it to be.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Johnson, Erica L. Green and Katie Benner, Jamie Lauren Keiles, Laurie Penny, and Jen Doll.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg, and Jack Nicas; Phil Klay, Harley Rustad, Michael Graff, and Alan Siegel.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and David Barstow, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Jaeah J. Lee, Shelley Puhak, and Sarah Miller.
It’s Time to Stop Painting Joyce Maynard as an ‘Oversharer’ Already By Sari Botton Highlight In the #metoo era, there’s no excuse for continuing to deride women like Maynard who speak out about their experiences with men who had much more power.
Going the Distance: A Reading List on Running By Jacqueline Alnes Reading List Six stories about running and the human drive to push through pain.
Why Is Australia Deporting So Many Maori and Pacific Islanders? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why are 60% of the New Zealanders deported from Australia Maori or Pacific Islanders?
You Don’t Move to Sarasota, the Spirit Moves You By Krista Stevens Highlight “In Sarasota, there is a community surrounding a litany of roadside psychics and more than 100 mediums and spiritual guides. Why?”
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.
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.
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