Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships By Longreads Feature On the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
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.
Out There I Have to Smile By Heather Lanier Feature Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.
The Syrian Rebels Who Found Refuge in Books By Carolyn Wells Highlight In a town under siege from Assad’s regime, a small group built a library from books rescued from the rubble.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alexander Chee, Matt Gallagher, Delphine Minoui, Lauren Markham, and Jamie Figueroa.
“I Was at a Loss for Any Facts that Would Actually Stick”: An Investigative Reporter on Losing His Mom to QAnon By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At BuzzFeed News, Albert Samaha describes his effort to save his mom from QAnon.
Stand By Your Dictator By Krista Stevens Highlight “The UN gave up trying to count the war’s death toll in 2016, when it had already reached nearly half a million. More than 10m Syrians are refugees.”
Shelved: Dr. Dre’s Detox By Tom Maxwell Feature Killer beats, huge hype, and failure to follow through.
The Struggle of Having a Pandemic Baby By Carolyn Wells Highlight Giving birth in the last year has meant a suffocatingly cloistered, rather than a communal, experience.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Karen Hao, Rebecca Solnit, Mary H.K. Choi, and Andrew Buss.
Good Naked vs. Bad Naked By Krista Stevens Highlight “As marriages go, ours is an infant. Soft-skulled and milk-breathed. We’ve been married for two years, together for five.”
Forget the Sheep, Pass the Dog By Carolyn Wells Highlight “The dogs knew the routine: settle down and relax so that the women could cut away their white tresses, shearing the dogs as closely as shearers do sheep.”
Shelved: Dr. Dre’s Detox By Tom Maxwell Feature Killer beats, huge hype, and failure to follow through.
Out There I Have to Smile By Heather Lanier Feature Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.
The Joy of a Pointless Walk By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”
Whole 60 By Laura Lippman Feature The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships By Longreads Feature On the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species.
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.
The Syrian Rebels Who Found Refuge in Books By Carolyn Wells Highlight In a town under siege from Assad’s regime, a small group built a library from books rescued from the rubble.
“People are dying waiting” By Krista Stevens Highlight “Miguel Jr. and Jeannette are troubled that Miguel’s doctors didn’t present ECMO as an option, and then resisted the idea when the family suggested it.”
The Silencing of #MeToo Reporting in Germany By Seyward Darby Highlight How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.
What Happened to Cruise Ship Workers Once the Passengers Were Gone? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, cruise companies “went to great lengths to repatriate vacationers.” But for crew members, it was a different story.
Neighborhood Watch: The Strange Aftermath of a ‘Karen’ Encounter By Seyward Darby Highlight In a progressive New Jersey community, racial solidarity is complicated.
Good Naked vs. Bad Naked By Krista Stevens Highlight “As marriages go, ours is an infant. Soft-skulled and milk-breathed. We’ve been married for two years, together for five.”
Pop Culture Portrays OCD as a Blessing. It’s Not. By Krista Stevens Highlight “The Wall Street Journal recently used the headline ‘We All Need OCD Now’ for an article on COVID-19 … Finally, my debilitating mental illness has a timely hook!”
Out There I Have to Smile By Heather Lanier Feature Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.
When Death Came to Mauritius By Krista Stevens Highlight “Black waves bring animals to the town’s shore. Sticky corpses float on the oil.”
“A Series of Small Collapses Caused by Continual Neglect” By Krista Stevens Highlight “A series of small collapses is how they come to be radicalized.”
