We All Work for Facebook By Livia Gershon Feature Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid? Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.
When Did Pop Culture Become Homework? By Soraya Roberts Feature When art is a should or a must or a have to, when we turn it into a chore, it is the opposite of what art is supposed to be.
The Women Characters Rarely End Up Free: Remembering Rachel Ingalls By Ruby Brunton Feature The recently re-appreciated novelist Rachel Ingalls passed away last month. She was among a cohort of twentieth-century women writers who were ‘famous for not being famous.’
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Anna Merlan, Sara Tatyana Bernstein, Connie Pertuz-Meza, and Emma Beddington.
Mothering on the Borders By Yifat Susskind Feature Yifat Susskind stands at three of the world’s most militarized borders and reflects on what is revealed about these zones of separation and violence when we see them from the perspective of mothers.
Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie By Alison Fields Feature Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
A Dispatch From the Fast-Paced, Makeshift World of High-End Catering By Longreads Feature The unsung heroes of the food world battle against time and chaos, cooking haute cuisine over lit cans of Sterno in the gloomy back hallways of New York’s civic landmarks.
Remembering Scott Walker By Tom Maxwell Feature When the pop singer went avant garde, he traded narrative meaning for emotional truth to explore those things that lay beyond language.
Does the Woman in the Painting Have a Secret? By Longreads Feature In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.
When Your Doctor is Also an Opioid Addict By Krista Stevens Highlight How one doctor beat his addiction to start helping members of his West Virginia community to do the same.
The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store By Joe Fassler Feature American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under? A lot — and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that.
‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’ By Bridey Heing Feature In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than popular history allows — especially popular history as told in the Midwest.
To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time By Matthew Salesses Feature Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2018 By Longreads Reading List Must-read stories from Han Kang, Porochista Khakpour, and Min Jin Lee.
On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness By Soraya Roberts Feature Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.
The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store By Joe Fassler Feature American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under? A lot — and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that.
The Curious Tale of the Salish Sea Feet By Kea Krause Feature To date, 21 disembodied feet have washed up on the shores of Seattle’s Salish Sea. What at first looked like the work of a serial killer turned out to be something even more unsettling: A message from the ocean about who we are.
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood By Longreads Feature While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The Women Characters Rarely End Up Free: Remembering Rachel Ingalls By Ruby Brunton Feature The recently re-appreciated novelist Rachel Ingalls passed away last month. She was among a cohort of twentieth-century women writers who were ‘famous for not being famous.’
A Dispatch From the Fast-Paced, Makeshift World of High-End Catering By Longreads Feature The unsung heroes of the food world battle against time and chaos, cooking haute cuisine over lit cans of Sterno in the gloomy back hallways of New York’s civic landmarks.
Does the Woman in the Painting Have a Secret? By Longreads Feature In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.
‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’ By Bridey Heing Feature In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than popular history allows — especially popular history as told in the Midwest.
Lock Your Doors? By Ryan Chapman Feature A new homeowner reads two novels that revolve around surreal home-invasion scenarios, and considers what it is about his house that scares him.
Notes on Citizenship By Nina Coomes Feature Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez By Longreads Feature In the story of one Mexican-American woman’s life, we can see the whole tragic story of the US-Mexico border’s transformation from a simple chain-link fence to a humanitarian crisis.
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners By Longreads Reading List The winners of the Pulitzer Prize have been announced.
What the Death of a Glacier Means for Us By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary The death of an iconic California glacier signals the loss of one scientist’s work, the end of an epoch, and possibly the beginning of a new era of mass extinction.
The American Worth Ethic By Bryce Covert Feature Like so many of our lofty ideals, the “American Work Ethic” is actually two different standards — one for the wealthy and one for the poor — with two different interpretations of what work looks like.
A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.
Mothering on the Borders By Yifat Susskind Feature Yifat Susskind stands at three of the world’s most militarized borders and reflects on what is revealed about these zones of separation and violence when we see them from the perspective of mothers.
Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie By Alison Fields Feature Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time By Matthew Salesses Feature Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.
Rewriting A Symphony In Stone By Summer Brennan Feature Summer Brennan considers the art and ritual of reinvention in the history of Notre Dame cathedral, and its witness to a Parisian millennium.