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.
