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Shades of Grey

By Ashley Stimpson Feature

In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?

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An Atlas of the Cosmos

By Shannon Stirone Feature

We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.

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.

Latest Picks

The Curse of the Buried Treasure

By Rebecca Mead / The New Yorker

The El Paso Experiment

By Melissa del Bosque / The Intercept

Motherhood, Metamorphosis

By Rachel Mans McKenny / Catapult

Dirty Kitchen

By Jill Damatac / The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop)

Trapped Between Pavement and the Pacific

By Julia Rosen / Hakai Magazine

The Story of a Face

By Jenny Kleeman / The Guardian

The Social Media Managers Are Not Okay

By Marta Martinez / OneZero

Trump Killed My American Dream: 8 Stories From the War on Immigrants

By Noah Lanard , Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones

Sejal Shah: “All my life, I have been biking with brakes on.”

By Kelly Sundberg / Guernica Magazine

How We Got Here

By Sophie Novack / Texas Observer

Latest Posts

‘Social Media Managers Are First Responders’

By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight

“They’re on the front lines of a relentless and overwhelming news cycle that is pushing them to the edge.”

‘You Just Have to Have a Strong Mind’: Shantonia Jackson on Working in a Nursing Home During the Pandemic

By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight

“The structural conditions shaping care work are highly exploitative—and are profoundly linked to the high degree of COVID-19’s spread within both long-term care facilities and the communities that supply their labor force.”

The Beautiful Incompleteness of Dusk

By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk—that liminal moment in between—murmurs suggestions.”

The Mysterious Case of a Nameless Hiker

By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight

A friendly and charming hiker was known on the trail as “Mostly Harmless.” After his body was discovered in a tent in Florida, no one could figure out who he was.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

By Longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Nicholas Thompson, Gabriel Winant, Rachel Lord Elizondo, and Pamela Petro.

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Let Me In

By Carolyn Wells Highlight

“A young guy has received admission into two American universities, but still gets rejected. One boy from my queue is given the visa. His smile is so luminous it is like he’s going straight to heaven. “

Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss

By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”

Roxie Laybourne: the World’s First Forensic Ornithologist

By Krista Stevens Highlight

“Having spent thousands of hours preparing thousands upon thousands of specimens, Laybourne had accumulated a library’s worth of knowledge about birds.”

‘These Were His Mountains, After All’: Remembering One’s Father While Cycling in the Swiss Alps

By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight

James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

By Longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, we’re sharing stories from Hannah Dreier, Doug Bock Clark, Samanth Subramanian, Michael Hobbes, Jonathan Cohn, Kate Sheppard, Alex Kaufman, Delphine D’Amora, Chris D’Angelo, and Emily Peck, and Kris Willcox and Michelle Ruiz.

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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?