The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell By Genevieve Fullan Feature Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Annie Hylton, Justin Ling, Jonathan Tjarks, Nicole Shawn Junior, and Lauren Hough.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Skip Hollandsworth, Kory Grow and Jason Newman, Jordan Kisner, Clare Fieseler, and Jessica Klein.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Robert Sanchez, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Emily Van Duyne, David Ferris, and Jaya Saxena.
Sniffing Out Love By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Instead of swiping, the strategy is wiping: namely, one’s perspiration onto a cotton pad.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wright Thompson, Fred Kaplan, Tori Marlan, Casey Gerald, and Sarah Everts.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Nathan Thrall, H. Claire Brown, Alexander Chee, Jean Garnett, and Erica Lenti.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Megan Evershed, Mark Mann, Jaelani Turner-Williams, Minelle Mahtani, and Kim Cross.
Pop Culture Portrays OCD as a Blessing. It’s Not. By Krista Stevens Highlight “The Wall Street Journal recently used the headline ‘We All Need OCD Now’ for an article on COVID-19 … Finally, my debilitating mental illness has a timely hook!”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Leah Sottile, Elon Green, Lisa Whittington-Hill, Kate Morgan, and Virginia Morell.
Who Gets a Vaccine? By Carolyn Wells Highlight We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?
Pretty and Dumb? Tell It to the Avocado By Carolyn Wells Highlight New arrivals didn’t hand Natives the keys to the modern world — but took the tools that built its foundations.
Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Feature An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
Risking Your Life For a Selfie By Carolyn Wells Highlight “With the right hashtag, anyone can view thousands of potential destinations — and choose which to visit based on aesthetics alone.”
Searching For Mackie By Annie Hylton Feature Seven years ago, a young woman from Tache, British Columbia, went out for the evening and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her, and they deserve answers.
Longreads Best of 2019: Profiles By Longreads Commentary We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in profiles.
The Adaptation of Language Evolution By Carolyn Wells Highlight Language has always changed, but the introduction of technology means it is adapting in ways we have never experienced before.
How Thailand’s Rich Escape Prosecution By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Thailand’s criminal justice system is plauged by an accepted double standard, where corruption prevails.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Brian Trapp, Alison Kinney, Kate Wagner, Willy Staley, and Suzannah Showler.
Is it Possible to be Child-Free and Content? By Carolyn Wells Highlight While motherhood is the natural path for many women – others simply don’t want to take it on.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jayson Greene, Theresa Breuer, Christa Parravani, Alexandra Kimball, and Casey Taylor.
There’s a Fine Line Between “Discovering” and “Interloping” By Michelle Weber Highlight It’s only “discovery” if you assume the place — or the people — has no meaningful existence apart from your visit. Surprise: you’re not that important.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Raboteau, Joe Bernstein and Davey Alba, Jen Doll, Kate Harris, and Lisa Franklin.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alex French and Maximillian Potter, Wesley Morris, Ruxandra Guidi, Robert Caro, and Mark Abley.
Pulling Out All the Stops to Understand a Distant Father By Krista Stevens Highlight “The phrase ‘pull out all the stops’ comes from the organ; it’s fortunate for listeners’ eardrums that organists never do this.”
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.
She Kept Every Letter By Krista Stevens Highlight “It is so essential to morale that army and navy officers of the highest rank list mail almost on a level with munitions and food.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Finlay Young, Katie Prout, Molly Crabapple, Sean Flynn, and Harley Rustad.
The Canadian Bonsai Star of YouTube By Krista Stevens Highlight For Harley Rustad’s too-tall bonsai Ficus religiosa, the first cut was indeed the deepest.
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