Nic and David Sheff on ‘Beautiful Boy’ and Telling Addiction Stories Responsibly By Zachary Siegel Feature Nic and his father David Sheff’s memoirs about grappling with Nic’s addiction are the basis for the new movie ‘Beautiful Boy.’ It was important to them that the movie communicate what addiction really is — an illness. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses By Longreads Feature Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?
Announcing the 2018 Longreads Member Drive By Mike Dang Commentary Today we’re launching the 2018 Longreads Member Drive with the goal of raising $50,000 from readers by November 2.
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The Minefield of Facebook Support Groups By Krista Stevens Highlight If you’re going on Facebook to join a support group, be wary of trolls and those who want to profit from your misfortune.
A Burger Made of Money By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Portland’s most successful restauranteur doesn’t care about your fancy, fresh-picked, locally sourced garden ingredients. He cooks for $$$.
Searching for Insights from Her Father’s Delusions By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When a journalist tries to understand her father’s claims of CIA surveillance, she learns to see her digital world in a very different light.
Dress You Up in My Love By Doree Shafrir Feature Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
When Your Child’s Life Depends on it By Krista Stevens Highlight Amber Olsen needs to raise one million additional dollars to fund life-saving research for her daughter, Willow.
The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free By Longreads Feature In the “bizarre and horrifying world” of the early modern Caribbean, maroons and pirates both prized their freedom above all else. And sometimes they worked together to safeguard it.
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Shelved: The Sound of Big Star’s Self-Destruction By Tom Maxwell Feature As the band dissolved, they managed to capture their destruction in some dark, powerful music.
On Blackface, Bert Williams, and Excellence By Danielle Jackson Commentary A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.
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Living with Dolly Parton By Jessica Wilkerson Feature Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.
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The Strongest Woman in the Room By Kitty Sheehan Feature A daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.
The Return of the Face By Adrian Daub Feature Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis? By Matt Giles Commentary The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming.
To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich By Longreads Feature One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”
Nic and David Sheff on ‘Beautiful Boy’ and Telling Addiction Stories Responsibly By Zachary Siegel Feature Nic and his father David Sheff’s memoirs about grappling with Nic’s addiction are the basis for the new movie ‘Beautiful Boy.’ It was important to them that the movie communicate what addiction really is — an illness.
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses By Longreads Feature Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?
The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free By Longreads Feature In the “bizarre and horrifying world” of the early modern Caribbean, maroons and pirates both prized their freedom above all else. And sometimes they worked together to safeguard it.
When a Missing Nickel Makes All the Difference By Krista Stevens Highlight “Yet money was a lie—pieces of paper and metal suggesting prices for goods, services, labor, and human beings themselves in a way that often had more to do with profit than with true value.”
The State of the Bookstore Union By Rebecca McCarthy Feature The Strand, New York City’s largest independent bookstore, is owned by a millionaire — and the booksellers who work there are all broke.
On Blackface, Bert Williams, and Excellence By Danielle Jackson Commentary A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.
The Others: Why Women Are Shut Out of Horror By Soraya Roberts Feature Horror movies give more screen time to strong female characters and attract a large female audience. But few female filmmakers get to work on them.
The State of the Bookstore Union By Rebecca McCarthy Feature The Strand, New York City’s largest independent bookstore, is owned by a millionaire — and the booksellers who work there are all broke.
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After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses By Longreads Feature Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?
Dress You Up in My Love By Doree Shafrir Feature Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester By Sara Fredman Feature On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
The First Time I Moved to New York By Alexander Chee Feature The fantasies Alexander Chee had of New York before he moved there didn’t fully prepare him for what it was like to love the city.
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