The Redemption of MS-13 By Danny Gold Feature Danny Gold investigates the movement converting El Salvador’s gang members into born-again Christians. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
They Wanted Her Body By Rafia Zakaria Feature Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.
The Longreads 2018 Holiday Gift Book Guide By Dana Snitzky Commentary We’ve made a catalog of books we featured in 2018 that we think would make great gifts.
Longreads Best of 2018: Food Writing By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in food writing.
You’re Fine, and So Is Your Baby By Michelle Weber Highlight If new parents say they don’t have intrusive thoughts about harm befalling their babies, “they’re lying.”
‘I Don’t Know What Else to Do. So I Run.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”
Reckoning With Georgia’s Increasing Suppression of Asian American Voters By Anjali Enjeti Feature As AAPI’s become a more powerful, Democrat-leaning voting bloc, efforts to keep them from the polls intensify.
Longreads Best of 2018: Arts and Culture By Longreads Commentary We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture.
‘I’m Not Saving These Pit Bulls—They Are Saving Me’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Jason Flatt’s animal rescue operation, Friends to the Forlorn, has saved 600 dogs and counting since 2009 and specializes in rescuing pit bills.
The Overdose Video: America’s Latest Genre of Horror Film By Krista Stevens Highlight Posting videos of the drug addicted in active overdose to social media in a bid to publicly shame them to get clean is as about as effective as you’d expect it to be.
Longreads Best of 2018: Profiles By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in profiles.
‘Mommy, Are We Famous?’: On the Rise of Kid Influencers on Instagram By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Kids are a growing part of Instagram’s influencer marketing industry. At Fast Company, Katharine Schwab reports on the rising stars of the platform — and the parents managing their “careers” behind the scenes.
The World of Nora Ephron: A Reading List By Sarah Edwards Reading List Seven stories about the journalist and director, on the 20th anniversary of the release of the film, “You’ve Got Mail.”
The Neanderthal By Jen Gilman Porat Feature Jen Gilman Porat seeks a genetic excuse for her husband’s barbaric table manners.
Who Cares? : On Nags, Martyrs, the Women Who Give Up, and the Men Who Don’t Get It By Longreads Feature Some women successfully free themselves from emotional labor, but I don’t want to give up the work of caring. I just want others to care as well.
The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public By Longreads Feature Watergate revealed that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious American brands, had been making bribes to politicians not only at home but in foreign countries.
The Queer Generation Gap By Soraya Roberts Feature How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.
What Has Everyone Got Against Dave Matthews? By Krista Stevens Commentary What’s not to like about Dave Matthews, asks Allison Williams.
Longreads Best of 2018: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Longreads Reading List Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
They Wanted Her Body By Rafia Zakaria Feature Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.
Hellhound on the Money Trail By Longreads Feature Standard recording contracts screwed Bluesmen out of royalties in the early 1900s, and the system was no different when Columbia released Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings in 1990.
Bowie Knives, Concealed Rifles, and Caning Charles Sumner By Longreads Feature As the Civil War loomed, weapons — like the recently invented bowie knife and rifles that were shipped to Kansas hidden in crates labeled as bibles — became complex political symbols.
Seasonal Associate By Longreads Feature No longer able to live on her freelance writing income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a holiday seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center.
This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight By Dana Snitzky Commentary This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
Reckoning With Georgia’s Increasing Suppression of Asian American Voters By Anjali Enjeti Feature As AAPI’s become a more powerful, Democrat-leaning voting bloc, efforts to keep them from the polls intensify.
They Wanted Her Body By Rafia Zakaria Feature Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.
Remembering Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks By Tom Maxwell Feature The Buzzcocks’ enduring influence might have surprised punk frontman Pete Shelley, but not his fans.
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t) By Michelle Weber Highlight Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.
No Justice For Old Men By Michelle Weber Highlight In 2018, we’re inured to stories of a powerful men taking advantage of girls and getting away with it, but Jeffrey Epstein’s story still manages to horrify.
They Wanted Her Body By Rafia Zakaria Feature Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.
As Beauty Does By Chaya Bhuvaneswar Feature Chaya Bhuvaneswar contemplates the powerful evolution of a woman’s beauty over time.
My Brother, My Self By Katie Prout Feature Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side By Adam Boffa Feature Solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction, demands radical optimism of its writers and readers. It takes the apocalypse as given, but doesn’t assume the worst of people living through it.