What’s Love Got to Do With It? By Alice Driver Feature “Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when perhaps we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.” Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
The Proving Grounds: Charley Crockett and the Story of Deep Ellum By Jonny Auping Feature Generations of musicians got their start busking the streets of the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. After a decade of ‘hobo-ing’ around cities like New Orleans, Paris, and New York, Charley Crockett discovered it was his turn.
Marmalade: A Very British Obsession By Olivia Potts Feature Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
Notes for a Post-apocalyptic Novel By Frederick Reimers Feature When things get hard, we look to our most fundamental relationships. This is the story of a son, a father, a camper van, a pandemic, and the ties that bind.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Barack Obama, Andrea Pitzer, Hannah Dreier, Ismail Muhammad, Niela Orr, Hanif Abdurraqib, Danielle A. Jackson, and Cassie Owens, and Karolina Waclawiak.
‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”
Cryin’, Dyin’, or Goin’ Somewhere: A Country Music Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List Although the sound of the music has changed, country’s themes have endured.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Michele Harper, Laura Paskus, Samiya Bashir, and Raven Leilani.
Until I Have Your Money By Carolyn Wells Highlight How multiple Canadian women entered a relationship with a man who was scamming them for money.
‘I Mostly Feel Like My Voice Matters’: A Portland Journalist on Protests, Police Violence, and Enduring Trauma By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist.
‘Their Bodies Are Not Considered Their Own’: White Privilege in the Emergency Room By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight It’s against the law to examine someone without their consent — but one ER doctor’s colleagues do it anyway.
A Genre of Myths: A Jazz Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Reading List Created in New Orleans and played around the world, the music we call jazz is filled with genius, legend, and tragedy.
When Boomers Must Zoom By Carolyn Wells Highlight “A friend who teaches at another university tells me that a new Yiddish word has been invented: oysgezoomt, ‘over-exposed to Zoom,’ as in ‘Ich bin azoy oysgezoomt!’ (‘I’m so done with Zoom!’)”
Marmalade: A Very British Obsession By Olivia Potts Feature Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets By Katy Kelleher Feature Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?
Faster Than the Speed of Sound: An Interview with Holly Maniatty By Cody Delistraty Feature American Sign Language interpreter Holly Maniatty uses every molecule in her body and the beautiful nuances of ASL to interpret musical performances for Deaf concert patrons.
The Proving Grounds: Charley Crockett and the Story of Deep Ellum By Jonny Auping Feature Generations of musicians got their start busking the streets of the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. After a decade of ‘hobo-ing’ around cities like New Orleans, Paris, and New York, Charley Crockett discovered it was his turn.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Barack Obama, Andrea Pitzer, Hannah Dreier, Ismail Muhammad, Niela Orr, Hanif Abdurraqib, Danielle A. Jackson, and Cassie Owens, and Karolina Waclawiak.
‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”
The Grieving Landscape By Longreads Feature Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack. By Dana Snitzky Commentary To read my “This Week in Books” newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.
Palliative Brownies By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grew up in the grip of the epidemic, maturing as people I adored as surrogate aunties and uncles fell ill and vanished from our lives.”
This Week in Books: We’ve All Been Briefed By Dana Snitzky Commentary “They have washed their hands for you. / And they take the bus home.” —Jericho Brown
Notes for a Post-apocalyptic Novel By Frederick Reimers Feature When things get hard, we look to our most fundamental relationships. This is the story of a son, a father, a camper van, a pandemic, and the ties that bind.
‘I Mostly Feel Like My Voice Matters’: A Portland Journalist on Protests, Police Violence, and Enduring Trauma By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist.
‘Who’s Going to Take Care of Me?’: When the Coronavirus Takes Both Parents By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In the wake of their parents’ deaths, three siblings struggle to get through the day-to-day.
The Promised Land By Alice Driver Feature A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.
What’s Love Got to Do With It? By Alice Driver Feature “Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when perhaps we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.”
‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”
Marmalade: A Very British Obsession By Olivia Potts Feature Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
In Absentia By matthewembremner Feature A meditation on the nature of grief, at a time when the whole world seems to be grieving.
‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.