Carly Rae Jepsen’s Exhilarating, Emotionally Intelligent Pop Music By Rachel Vorona Cote Feature Although music often involves emotional expression, pop star Carly Rae Jepsen has built a career and a persona out of big, unguarded emotions, a range that could be called “too muchness,” which is just right for some of us. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Greg Miller, Melissa del Bosque, Katherine Rosman, Laura Marsh, and Alexander Huls.
Meet the 14-Year-Old Dancer Who Invented The Renegade By Mark Armstrong Highlight A ninth grader’s creation explodes on TikTok, without acknowledgement or credit.
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.”
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
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.”
When Your Father Recruits You for a Life of Crime By Krista Stevens Highlight Archie Moretti believed he could steal and get away with it. It’d just take a little nepotism.
What If This Is It: Will Huey Lewis Sing Again? By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘The music went away slowly and then all at once. So what if it never comes back? “I haven’t allowed myself to go there yet,” Huey says, worry in his voice.’
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from David Enrich, Megan Stielstra, Natalie Weiner, Mark Leviton and Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Amanda Fortini.
The Danger of Befriending Celebrities By Michael Musto Feature Once upon a time, nightlife journalist Michael Musto didn’t set the strongest boundaries with the boldfaced names he covered.
The Danger of Befriending Celebrities By Michael Musto Feature Once upon a time, nightlife journalist Michael Musto didn’t set the strongest boundaries with the boldfaced names he covered.
The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona By Longreads Feature To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.
A History of American Protest Music: When Nina Simone Sang What Everyone Was Thinking By Tom Maxwell Feature “Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.
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.
The Poke Paradox By Adam Skolnick Feature Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.
Whatever Happened to ______ ? By Longreads Feature Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.
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.
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.
The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona By Longreads Feature To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.
American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere By Sarah Menkedick Feature “Jeanine Cummins can write about Mexico — but she will be judged on whether her writing actually captures the experiential and emotional and ethical complexity of that place, and she will be judged with extra care because she is an outsider.”
‘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.”
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.
Be a Good Sport By Soraya Roberts Feature Competitive sports can mean professional and financial success — if they don’t compromise your mental health first. ‘Cheer’ and ‘Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez’ show how athletics can hurt as much as they can heal.
Menace Too Society By Soraya Roberts Feature Cancel culture suggests we can change the world from the outside in, but the misogyny and racism are coming from inside the house.
Happily Never After By Soraya Roberts Feature By protecting ourselves and no one else, we destroy ourselves along with everyone else.
What the World’s Most Controversial Herbicide Is Doing to Rural Argentina By Longreads Feature After enormous lobbying efforts, Monsanto’s GMO soybeans, treated with Roundup, became the country’s largest export, as cancer rates and other health issues skyrocketed.
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.
The Danger of Befriending Celebrities By Michael Musto Feature Once upon a time, nightlife journalist Michael Musto didn’t set the strongest boundaries with the boldfaced names he covered.
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.
American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere By Sarah Menkedick Feature “Jeanine Cummins can write about Mexico — but she will be judged on whether her writing actually captures the experiential and emotional and ethical complexity of that place, and she will be judged with extra care because she is an outsider.”
All Mom’s Friends By Svetlana Kitto Feature Svetlana Kitto recalls her 1980s childhood in Hollywood during the early years of the AIDS crisis.
