The Great Stink Feature It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories Feature
A Finder, No Longer a Keeper Feature How finding someone else’s engagement ring helped Jenny Klion let go of her own. Feature
Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak Feature Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life. Feature
In a City Divided by Barbecue, Chicago’s South Side Style Gets Ignored Highlight On Chicago’s Southside, there is a type of barbecue found nowhere else, and it’s too widely ignored.
Inadvertent Matchmaker Seeks a Love of Her Own Commentary I was introducing all my friends, but had no idea how to be in a good relationship.
You Don’t Have to Eat It Highlight Kitchen karma comes for Irina Dumitrescu when her young son turns into the picky eater she used to be.
And Headbangers Shall Know Thy Names Highlight The untold story of two musicians who contributed to Guns N’ Roses’ early success.
Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing to Think Highlight Barbara Ehrenreich on thinking as an antidote to “the unknown and potentially menacing.”
Feature How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians Feature Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Lurve You? Or Loathe You? Highlight Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.
The Placeless and the Privileged Highlight On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mark Arax, David Grann, Stephanie Nolen, Eleanor Cummins, and David Marchese.
Feature Letter to a Dog Walking Service Feature Diane Mehta adopted a rescue dog but then questioned her own salvation from the chaos of daily migraines.
Ten Books to Read in 2018 Highlight We asked writers, editors, and booksellers to tell us about a few books they felt deserved more recognition last year.
Feature A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio Feature A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.
Feature The Handgun and the Haunted Range Feature Justin Quarry hunted for himself, and a connection to his late father, with the unlikely inheritance of a firearm.
How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life Commentary A bout with food poisoning, the birth of my first child, and the terrifying discovery that I couldn’t walk.
Feature A Teen and a Toy Gun Feature This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Feature How ‘Cops’ Became the Most Polarizing Reality TV Show in America Feature What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.
Feature How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians Feature Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Feature Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
Feature The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless Feature Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.
The Money His Father Left Behind, and the Life it Would Start Commentary When Alexander Chee’s father died at 43, he left behind a trust that would set the course of his son’s life.
Feature The Great Stink Feature It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
Struggling to Balance Business and Conservation in the Amazon Basin Highlight Driving through the Amazon Basin on a single road to see whether Brazil can balance economic development with rainforest conservation.
The Couple Who Turned a California Desert Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Snack Empire Highlight Taxpayers have helped Stewart and Lynda Resnick turn an irrigated desert into a dangerous and lucrative agricultural gamble.
Feature A Teen and a Toy Gun Feature This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Feature The Mutilated and the Disappeared Feature A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.
Feature A Finder, No Longer a Keeper Feature How finding someone else’s engagement ring helped Jenny Klion let go of her own.
Feature Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak Feature Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
Feature Letter to a Dog Walking Service Feature Diane Mehta adopted a rescue dog but then questioned her own salvation from the chaos of daily migraines.
Feature Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.