Shelved: Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk By Tom Maxwell Feature The posthumous Buckley industry began with this problematic album, proof that the people who control a musician’s estate don’t always have his music in mind.
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight
Postcard from the (Literal) Edge By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her recovery memoir, Erin Khar recalls the depths of her self-destruction as a heroin addict.
How the US Spied on Allies and Adversaries Alike By Krista Stevens Highlight The “United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.”
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.
Regarding the Pain of Oprah By Soraya Roberts Feature She gets a mansion and she gets a boat and she gets a jet! And you get to suffer and then maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you’re lucky enough and bare enough of your private pain.
House of the Century By Daisy Alioto Feature Daisy Alioto reconsiders the nature of architecture while researching window alarms.
Longreads Best of 2019: Food Writing By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in food writing.
‘I Want Every Sentence To Be Doing Work’: An Interview with Miranda Popkey By Zan Romanoff Feature “Something I did learn writing this book is that being impressed by something doesn’t mean you should try and do it.”
‘I Was Being Used in Slivers and Slices’: On Feminism at Odds With Evangelical Faith By Jane Ratcliffe Feature
The Poke Paradox By Adam Skolnick Feature Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.
Finding Answers about Life and Love in the Mountain Death Zone By Krista Stevens Highlight “There’s no reflective surfaces when you’re climbing. You’re just who you are.”
A Tribute to Lynn Cohen, 1933-2020 By Catherine Cusick Commentary New York character actress Lynn Cohen died on Valentine’s Day 2020, survived by an extended family of friends and collaborators.
