The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Angella d’Avignon, Katie Englehart, Caitlin Dewey, Eric Benson, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom.
“The Glitter-scurfed Frappuccinos” Is Totally the Name of My New Band By Michelle Weber Highlight Don’t disrespect the fish. Or do! It’s your dinner.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Jen Gann, Christine H. Lee, John Birdsall, and Anna Callaghan.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ijeoma Oluo, Patricia Lockwood, Michael Shaw, Mairead Small Staid, and Adriana Gallardo.
A Pot of Gold At Age 18, Basically By Krista Stevens Highlight Low financial literacy and big cash payouts for youth of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians can add up to problems.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kashmir Hill, R.O. Kwon, Jaime Lowe, and Steve Edwards.
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.
For the Love of Phish: ‘The Art of Letting Go’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “This is the other thing about Phish: you can be just as earnest and dorky as you want to be.”
How One Alabama Sherriff Worked Openly to Oppress People of Color By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.
Science Has Yet to Prove Mold Makes us Sick By Krista Stevens Highlight Is it the black mold causing your headaches, or is it all in your head? Don’t turn to science. It has no answers.
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 a Small Paycheck After All By Katie Kosma Highlight Disneyland’s painfully low wages make for an unmagical kingdom.
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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Chris Outcalt, Corie Brown, Daniel Immerwahr, Toniann Fernandez, and Karen Abbott.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahima Nasa, Roxane Gay, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Lucy Grove-Jones, and Jen Doll.
How the Lani Kai Island Resort Thrives Under a Never-Ending Spring Break By Krista Stevens Highlight At the Lani Kai Island Resort, owner Bob Conidaris even provides “a cheap all-you-can-eat brunch, because the kids ‘do not eat! They mostly want to drink. I want them to get at least one good meal.'”
When Musical Theater Is Also a Kind of Therapy By Sari Botton Highlight For teens recovering from the Parkland shooting, performing in a production of “Spring Awakening” provides a measure of healing.
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 Baller Women of the Billiards Tour By Krista Stevens Highlight Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.
One Georgia Farmer’s Experiment in Racial Equality By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Minister Clarence Jordan founded Koinonia Farm in 1942 to be, in his words, a “demonstration plot for the kingdom of God.” Can it endure in our racially charged modern climate?
A Pact Between You, God, and the Dance Floor By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Dancing the nights away with bar and bat mitzvah professionals known as “party motivators.”
Is This House Haunted, or Is That Just a Drunk Guy on the Lawn? By Michelle Weber Highlight The owners of the real-life Amityville Horror house had to have the street address changed to avoid the real terror: tourists.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Lois Beckett, Julia O’Malley, Alice Driver, and Sarah Jeong.
How to Get Away with Spying for the Enemy By Longreads Feature How does someone get away with helping a foreign adversary? Writer Sarah Laskow digs into the gonzo story of an American acquitted of spying for the Soviets—even after he confessed to it.
White Men By Longreads Feature What do we get from our parents? An inheritance always comes with a tax.
