The Strange True Tale of ‘Castro’s No. 1 Killer’ By longreads Feature Herman Marks, a drifter from Milwaukee, took a boat to Cuba with nothing but a Colt .45 revolver and $400 in cash. His plan? To join the revolution. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
Curator Spotlight: Robert Sanchez on Highlighting Notable Storytelling from City Magazines Across the U.S. By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature The longtime writer at Denver’s 5280 magazine talks about City Reads, the stellar work published by fellow journalists, and the intimate experience of reading thousands of solidarity letters mailed from across the country, demanding justice for Elijah McClain.
78 Revolutions Around the Sun: A Joni Mitchell Reading List By Krista Stevens Feature Poet, painter, composer, musician, and so much more.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Kevin Fagan, Sarah Ravani, Lauren Hepler, and J.K. Dineen, Eric Boodman, Gabrielle Anctil, Joe Hagan, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.
There Are No Seasons: A Reading List on Loss, Love, and Living with Fire in California By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Six personal essays about or inspired by wildfire.
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A New Leaf: A Post-Legalization Cannabis Reading List By Peter Rubin Feature Five stories demonstrating how the green rush nurtured the best and worst that U.S. capitalism had to offer
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Hannah Dreier, Jeremy Miller, Katherine LaGrave, Wes Ferguson, and Omar Mouallem.
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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?”
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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 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?”
78 Revolutions Around the Sun: A Joni Mitchell Reading List By Krista Stevens Feature Poet, painter, composer, musician, and so much more.
The Strange True Tale of ‘Castro’s No. 1 Killer’ By longreads Feature Herman Marks, a drifter from Milwaukee, took a boat to Cuba with nothing but a Colt .45 revolver and $400 in cash. His plan? To join the revolution.
Me and You By William Torrey Feature Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
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.
Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games By Peter Rubin Feature Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
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.
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A Tall Tree Reading List By Carolyn Wells Feature Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.
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