The Thriving eBay Cheeto Community By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Uniquely shaped Cheetos go for big bucks online, but is anyone really buying?
Editor’s Roundtable: From WeEarth to The Aunt-o-Sphere (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Outline, and CrimeReads.
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.
Style Ain’t Cheap, aka That Stuffed Coyote Costs Extra By Michelle Weber Highlight Going to a hotel to have a place to sleep is for suckers: it’s influencing or bust.
Prison: A Death Sentence by Poison By Krista Stevens Highlight Nearly a third of all US federal prisons are located within three miles of a Superfund site; 134 are located within one mile.
Come for the Crullers, Stay for the Community By Krista Stevens Highlight “It’s funny, how a seemingly soulless franchise started to feel like an old friend, once I spent enough time there.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, Brooke Bobb, Dom Cosentino, Jia Tolentino, and Robert Silverman.
The Man Who Painted the Cover of Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Album Didn’t Get Paid What It’s Worth By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Artists are always getting screwed, even by other artists.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sloane Crosley, Jason Fagone, Bronwen Dickey, Heather Radke, and Kelly Conaboy.
My Dog is 10.3% Supermutt By Krista Stevens Highlight Because she wants to know everything about him, Kelly Conaboy DNA-tests her rescue dog, Peter Parker.
White Privilege on Loop By Catherine Cusick Highlight Ann-Derrick Gaillot traces how Vine’s shuttering last year disproportionately affected the careers of Black Viners.
Harshing the Internet Poet’s Mellow By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Instagram poet Collin Andrew Yost got trounced online, but his experience offers a lesson in how to cultivate empathy.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Caitlin Dickerson, Aaron Edwards, Alice Su, Jia Tolentino, and James Somers.
An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad) By Ben Huberman Highlight When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind By Michelle Weber Highlight Sam Kriss, in a post he calls his “magnum opus” in The Outline, explores the age-old warning not to stare directly at the sun.
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