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On Watching Boys Play Music
By Eryn Loeb Feature

“With a drink in my hand and earplugs responsibly in place, I’m very aware that I’ve spent more than half my life essentially standing in the same spot: off to one side of the stage (close but not too close), eyes forward, shifting weight from foot to foot.”

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The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
By Rachel Nuwer Feature

A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?

‘Let’s Reset’: A Career Social Distancer Mends Some Fences
By Sari Botton Feature

Coronavirus inspires Sari Botton to reach out to family and friends she’s fallen out with.

A Long, Lonely Time
By Hannah Seidlitz Feature

“It’s strange to think that the Righteous Brothers outlive my mother. Sometimes I pretend they are singing to her.”

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Body of Lies
By Deenie Hartzog-Mislock  / Longreads
“It Was Gone Overnight”
By Christina Cauterucci  / Slate
They Were Warriors
By Rebecca Makkai  / Chicago Magazine
The Hate Store
By Francis Tseng , Ava Kofman , Moira Weigel  / Pro Publica
Press Play
By Chris Dennis  / Guernica Magazine
Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’
By Arundhati Roy  / Financial Times
Scotland’s Seaweed Showdown
By Cathleen O’Grady  / Hakai Magazine
Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding
By Maya Kosoff  / Medium
The Voice Keepers
By Laura Preston  / The Believer
Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure
By Aisha Ahmad  / Chronicle of Higher Education
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Latest Posts

Body of Lies
By Deenie Hartzog-Mislock Feature

Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.

This Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.

We’re Not All in This Together
By Soraya Roberts Feature

When the only way to be a real community is to be apart, it quickly becomes obvious who is out for themselves.

On Dolly Parton and Being Seen
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Perhaps I’m taking this too personally, but the idea of being inexplicably drawn to a phenomenon that is ultimately destructive is, well, heartbreaking and uncomfortably relatable.”

Arundhati Roy: 1.3 Billion on Lockdown on Four Hours’ Notice
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could.”

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Shout Out to Myspace
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

The site that revolutionized how people released and listened to music has died multiple deaths since its 2003 debut, but it finally gets the eulogy it deserves.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
By Longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, we’re sharing stories from Maria Elena Fernandez, Jake Bittle, Eva Holland, Naz Riahi, and Terra Fondriest.

Greta Thunberg: “We Just Have to Care About Each Other More”
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“It has become a disconcerting pattern for Thunberg appearances: Greta tells the adults they are fools and their plans are lame and shortsighted. They still give her a standing ovation.”

The Messy Making of a Nearly Perfect Hip-Hop Album
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

Music as original as Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s sounds evergreen, but originality came with a high personal cost for its maker.

The Danger of Desire
By Faylita Hicks Feature

Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.

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Popular Posts

The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
By Rachel Nuwer Feature

A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?

25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them
By Catherine Cusick Reading List

A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.

The Criminalization of the American Midwife
By Jennifer Block Feature

New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial. For what? For doing her job. Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.

15 True Crime Longreads and the Questions We Should Ask Ourselves When Reading Them
By Catherine Cusick Reading List

By bringing new dimensions to an unjust process, a well-told story has the power to impact some of our most flawed systems.

Will the Real Dwight Yoakam Please Speak Up
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Whether this (continuous deflection) is intentional or not, it’s a good way of avoiding giving too much away.”

What Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don’t Matter Anymore?
By Sarah Miller Feature

Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.

Books

This Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.

This Week In Books: Too Small For the Occasion
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

He screamed, and I mean really screamed, to no one and to every one of us who was peeking at him out our windows: “What are we even doing out here!!??”

“The Leaky Vessel”: On Lewis Carroll and the Perils of Being Female
By Longreads Feature

Rachel Vorona Cote on how the Victorian era’s restrictive prescriptions for acceptable female behavior pollute society to this day.

This Week In Books: A ‘Melancholia’ or ‘Take Shelter’ Situation
By Dana Snitzky Reading List

I will become power-mad and lock my boyfriend inside forever!

This Week in Books: This Moment Doesn’t Remind Me of Anything
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

Lawrence Wright did it again; Jordan Peterson in a coma?; Myriam Gurba forced out of her job; Woody Allen canceled by his publisher’s employees; THE VIRUS; and more.

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Current Events

This Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.

Arundhati Roy: 1.3 Billion on Lockdown on Four Hours’ Notice
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could.”

Performance Art: On Sharing Culture
By Soraya Roberts Feature

With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?

‘This Thing Grinds You Like a Mortar’: How Jessica Lustig is Fighting Coronavirus
By Krista Stevens Highlight

‘“You shouldn’t stay here,” he says, but he gets more frightened as night comes, dreading the long hours of fever and soaking sweats and shivering and terrible aches.’

COVID-19: Dispatches from Sing Sing
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Sing Sing was going into quarantine. Our movement was limited. No gym. Hospital and commissary runs limited to groups of ten. Staggered seating in the mess hall.”

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Essays & Criticism

Body of Lies
By Deenie Hartzog-Mislock Feature

Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.

On Watching Boys Play Music
By Eryn Loeb Feature

“With a drink in my hand and earplugs responsibly in place, I’m very aware that I’ve spent more than half my life essentially standing in the same spot: off to one side of the stage (close but not too close), eyes forward, shifting weight from foot to foot.”

Arundhati Roy: 1.3 Billion on Lockdown on Four Hours’ Notice
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could.”

‘Let’s Reset’: A Career Social Distancer Mends Some Fences
By Sari Botton Feature

Coronavirus inspires Sari Botton to reach out to family and friends she’s fallen out with.

The Danger of Desire
By Faylita Hicks Feature

Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.

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