Which Way to Westeros? By Carolyn Wells Highlight With a plethora of fantasy appearing on streaming services, we take a look back at Adrian Daub’s essay on world-building maps.
‘We Deserve So Much More Than Police, Prisons, and Jails’: Scalawag Takes On Emmy-Winning Television By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight
Holiday Gift Guide: 8 Books We Excerpted on Longreads in 2021 By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature A short list of books we loved (and featured) this year.
How a Hacker Named P4x Took Down North Korea’s Internet By Krista Stevens Highlight North Korea hacked him. Things got personal.
Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature
Wearing All the Hats: A Chat with the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue By Brendan O'Meara Feature In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Seyward Darby about “Fault Lines,” her Atavist writing debut.
The Big, Bonkers, British, Christmas Pantomime By Carolyn Wells Feature Oh, yes I did! An attempt to explain the bizarre tradition of the British Christmas pantomime.
‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students By Seyward Darby Highlight
Final Girl, Terrible Place By Lesley Finn Feature I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.
An Unseen World: A Reading List about Fermentation By Julia Skinner Feature Ferments are found in every culture and cuisine on earth, and the history of their production is deeply interwoven with our own.
Nine Longreads Stories Recognized Across This Year’s ‘Best American’ and ‘Year’s Best’ Series By Longreads Highlight
Odd, Genius, or Something In Between: A Reading List on Writers By Lisa Bubert Feature “Give me the weird tics, the turns of phrase, the strange beginnings. Give me the writer in their natural habitat.”
Behind the Story: Mailee Osten-Tan on Reporting on Gender Confirmation Surgery in Thailand By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature
Dreaming of Water with Tiger Salamanders By Sam Keck Scott Feature “There is no more urgent form of communication than going extinct.”
Galloping Into the Abyss By Longreads Feature Andres Beckett dreamed of flying over the crest, down into the long dark track of the Suicide Race.
Nine Longreads Stories Recognized Across This Year’s ‘Best American’ and ‘Year’s Best’ Series By Longreads Highlight
Monsters, Mothers, Mulieres: A Reading List on The Women of Classical Antiquity By Rachel Ashcroft Feature Five stories of ambitious empresses, fearsome gladiators, and ordinary working-class residents — glimmering snapshots of the female experience in the classical world.