A History of American Protest Music: Come By Here By Tom Maxwell Feature How cultural appropriation and erasure turned an African American spiritual into a white campfire sing-along. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
Stories to Read in 2019 By Longreads Reading List A dozen exceptional stories from 2018 that deserve our ongoing attention.
Eleven Books to Read in 2019 By Dana Snitzky Commentary We asked eleven authors to tell us about an amazing book that we might have missed in 2018.
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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kashmir Hill, R.O. Kwon, Jaime Lowe, and Steve Edwards.
The Laws of the Awards Podium Protest By Soraya Roberts Feature Stars are increasingly using Hollywood awards podiums as sites of protest, but few of them are men, and even fewer are white men.
“Welcome to the House of Horrors”: When IP Address Mapping Goes Wrong By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess.
Blackstars By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
Sarah Moss on Brexit, Borders, Bog Bodies, and the ‘Foundation Myths of a Really Damaged Country’ By Tobias Carroll Feature Sarah Moss’s tale of Iron Age reenactors and parental abuse is her way of addressing Brexit. “Putting the skulls of the ancestors up in some attempt to hold back history never works.”
On Alcoholism, Sobriety, and Running Toward a Future By Krista Stevens Highlight “…no one sober knows if they’re going to be sober forever. It was a forgiving moment, and it humbled me.”
Repairman-man-man-(wo)man By Catherine Cusick Highlight Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
Defrauding the Competition By Catherine Cusick Highlight As competitors prank each other into account suspensions, the business of reinstating Amazon Marketplace businesses is booming.
The Thrill (and the Heavy Emotional Burden) of Blazing a Trail for Black Women Journalists By Longreads Feature Dorothy Butler Gilliam remembers how exciting it was to integrate The Washington Post, but also how lonely — and often attacked — she felt as the first black woman reporter in the newsroom.
Land Not Theirs By Madison Davis Feature Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
The Redemption of MS-13 By Danny Gold Feature Danny Gold investigates the movement converting El Salvador’s gang members into born-again Christians.
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.
Swipe White By Jennifer Chong Schneider Feature Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
The Science of Dreaming By Jessica Gross Feature Science journalist Alice Robb on why we need to take our dreams seriously.
Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone? By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.
Eleven Books to Read in 2019 By Dana Snitzky Commentary We asked eleven authors to tell us about an amazing book that we might have missed in 2018.
Blackstars By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
Sarah Moss on Brexit, Borders, Bog Bodies, and the ‘Foundation Myths of a Really Damaged Country’ By Tobias Carroll Feature Sarah Moss’s tale of Iron Age reenactors and parental abuse is her way of addressing Brexit. “Putting the skulls of the ancestors up in some attempt to hold back history never works.”
The Thrill (and the Heavy Emotional Burden) of Blazing a Trail for Black Women Journalists By Longreads Feature Dorothy Butler Gilliam remembers how exciting it was to integrate The Washington Post, but also how lonely — and often attacked — she felt as the first black woman reporter in the newsroom.
Eleven Books to Read in 2019 By Dana Snitzky Commentary We asked eleven authors to tell us about an amazing book that we might have missed in 2018.
A Childhood in Cars By Joshua James Amberson Feature How one young man cut against the grain of American masculinity and freed himself from car culture.
Will Amazon Finally Kill New York? By Rebecca McCarthy Feature A New Yorker reads “Seasonal Associate” in the age of HQ2.
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.
Blackstars By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
On Alcoholism, Sobriety, and Running Toward a Future By Krista Stevens Highlight “…no one sober knows if they’re going to be sober forever. It was a forgiving moment, and it humbled me.”
Repairman-man-man-(wo)man By Catherine Cusick Highlight Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure By Lauren DePino Feature Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
Cowards and Accomplices By Judith Hertog Feature In light of her own family’s experience during the Holocaust, Judith Hertog considers her ethical responsibilities in today’s world.
