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Summer Mother
By Michael Gonzales Feature

Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.

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to Fund More Stories

Longreads Best of 2019

A collection of our favorite stories from last year
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Longreads Honored with 14 Notable Mentions in ‘Best American’ Series
By Longreads Commentary

Our cup runneth over! Congratulations to all!

“The Final Five Percent” Wins 2020 Science in Society Journalism Award
By Longreads Highlight

Congratulations to Tim Requarth, whose Longreads essay has won the 2020 award in the Longform Narratives category.

Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent
By Jeanna Kadlec Feature

Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.

Latest Picks

Her Name Was Nina
By Andrea Meyer  / Pangyrus
The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
By Emily Bazelon  / The New York Times Magazine
She Went Out For A Walk. Then Drogo The Police Dog Charged.
By Abbie Vansickle , Maurice Chammah  / The Marshall Project
USC’s Dying Linebackers
By Michael Rosenberg  / Sports Illustrated
‘Machines Set Loose to Slaughter’: the Dangerous Rise of Military AI
By Frank Pasquale  / The Guardian
Outta That Holler
By Sarah Smarsh  / Slate
How Iceman Wim Hof Uncovered the Secrets to Our Health
By Susan Casey  / Outside
All the President’s Men
By Christopher Mathias  / HuffPost
The Guardians of Elmhurst
By Mattie Kahn  / Glamour
The True Story of the Antifa Invasion of Forks, Washington
By Lauren Smiley  / Wired
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Latest Posts

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Smiley, Reid Forgrave, Susan Casey, Michael Rosenberg, and Lucy Jones.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Mike Giglio, Omar Mouallem, Katherine Laidlaw, Dave Daley, and Tim Greiving.

Find Yourself
By Elizabeth Isadora Gold Feature

From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.

Who Gets a Vaccine?
By Carolyn Wells Highlight

We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Barton Gellman, Latria Graham, Teju Cole, Samuel Ashworth, and Shanna Baker.

The Powerful Decide
By Longreads Feature

What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.

Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court
By Gabriel Thompson Feature

Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Greg Jaffe, Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques, Jeremy Lybarger, and Cat Cardenas and Christian Wallace.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Adam Serwer, Alexandra Marvar, Timothy Snyder, Gaby Del Valle, and Sulaiman Addonia.

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Popular Posts

Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent
By Jeanna Kadlec Feature

Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.

The Final Five Percent
By Tim Requarth Feature

If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials — but one neuroscientist discovers that assigning crime a biological basis creates more issues than it solves.

Out There: On Not Finishing
By Devin Feature

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
By Irina Dumitrescu Feature

A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.

The Powerful Decide
By Longreads Feature

What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Mike Giglio, Omar Mouallem, Katherine Laidlaw, Dave Daley, and Tim Greiving.

Books

The Powerful Decide
By Longreads Feature

What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.

‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”

The Grieving Landscape
By Longreads Feature

Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.

This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack.
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

To read my “This Week in Books” newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.

Palliative Brownies
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“I grew up in the grip of the epidemic, maturing as people I adored as surrogate aunties and uncles fell ill and vanished from our lives.”

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Current Events

Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court
By Gabriel Thompson Feature

Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.

How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
By Irina Dumitrescu Feature

A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.

Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral
By Yxta Maya Murray Feature

In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.

“Do You Get Shit for Your Name?”
By Osama Shehzad Feature

When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.

The Endgame of the Olympics
By Dvora Meyers Feature

What if the Olympic Games never come back?

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Essays & Criticism

Summer Mother
By Michael Gonzales Feature

Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.

Find Yourself
By Elizabeth Isadora Gold Feature

From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.

Out There: On Not Finishing
By Devin Feature

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

Death as a Work of Art
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“He tried to explain that the tomb was his final creative act, one that he would make with love, as he had made ceramics daily for the past forty-four years.”

How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
By Irina Dumitrescu Feature

A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.

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