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Me and You By William Torrey Feature Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
Doctors Without Patients: The Eritrean Physicians Stuck in American Licensing Limbo By Shoshana Akabas Feature “What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”
Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games By Peter Rubin Feature Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Daniel Engber, Sara Reinis, James Dolan, Irina Dumitrescu, and Amelia Tait.
The Many Decades of Bond By Carolyn Wells Feature “How has someone who is a borderline rapist, murderer, and potential sociopath, endured through all these decades?”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Laura Nahmias, Victor Luckerson, Arianne Shahvisi, Roberto José Andrade Franco, and Apoorva Tadepalli.
The Mysterious Case of Mr. X By Longreads Feature For eight years, a man with amnesia lived at a hospital in Mississippi. Who was he — and why had no one come looking for him?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Becca Andrews, Désiré Nimubona, Jon Mooallem, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Kathryn Borel.
Curator Spotlight: Vesna Jaksic Lowe on What It Means To Straddle Multiple Cultures By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf.
’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Carolyn Wells Weekly Top 5 Our editors share five favorites, just in time for your weekend.
Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Diana Moskovitz, Kathryn Ivey, Katherine Laidlaw, Chris Colin, and Josh Dzieza.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Carolyn Wells Weekly Top 5 Our editors share five favorites, just in time for your weekend.
Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games By Peter Rubin Feature Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
The Mysterious Case of Mr. X By Longreads Feature For eight years, a man with amnesia lived at a hospital in Mississippi. Who was he — and why had no one come looking for him?
A Sketch Artist, a Grieving Mother, and An Unsolved Mystery By Longreads Feature They set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.
Nine Longreads Stories Recognized Across This Year’s ‘Best American’ and ‘Year’s Best’ Series By Longreads Highlight These essays and features across science, food, and sports are worth a read.
But Who Tells Them What To Sing? By Adrian Daub Feature “And thus another Hollywood tradition was born: film choruses belting out perfectly nonsensical prose with utter conviction.”
Even the Steam Had a Shadow By Longreads Feature “He couldn’t remember coming here, or going anywhere. He looked down at himself. With a writhe of horror, he found he couldn’t even remember getting dressed. His clothes were unfamiliar.”
Happy is a Relative State By Longreads Feature “The rest of my life will always be entwined with rheumatoid arthritis. But it’s my choice to also be something more, to not feel sick, to still find those shadows of a dancer, which is to say tiny flecks of magic, within me.”
Judge a Book Not By its Gender By lisawhill Feature Lisa Whittington-Hill suggests there’s a distinct gender bias in celebrity memoirs. Where female celebrities are expected to expose all, male writers get to write about whatever they want.
‘The Fledglings Are Out!’ By Longreads Feature “Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”
‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students By Seyward Darby Highlight The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.
The Cult That Promises to Cure Addiction By Longreads Feature For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.
What Happened to Milad? A Palestinian Father Searches for His Son. By Seyward Darby Highlight One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.
‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students By Seyward Darby Highlight The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.
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.”
Nine Longreads Stories Recognized Across This Year’s ‘Best American’ and ‘Year’s Best’ Series By Longreads Highlight These essays and features across science, food, and sports are worth a read.
Me and You By William Torrey Feature Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.
Twenty Years Later: A 9/11 Reading List By Krista Stevens Feature Six stories on the immediate and ongoing aftermath of the attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001.
A Tall Tree Reading List By Carolyn Wells Feature Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.
