A Lover’s Blues: The Unforgettable Voice of Margie Hendrix By Tari Ngangura Feature Remembering the woman who outsang Ray Charles. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
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Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral By Yxta Maya Murray Feature In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries By Irina Dumitrescu Feature A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
Shelved: Pink Floyd’s Household Objects By Tom Maxwell Feature On Syd Barrett’s time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.
‘It’s An iPad, Not An usPad’: Douglas Rushkoff on Digital Isolation By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “There’s no Dropbox plan that will let us upload body and soul to the cloud. We are still here on the ground, with the same people and on the same planet we are being encouraged to leave behind.”
Death as a Work of Art By Krista Stevens Highlight “He tried to explain that the tomb was his final creative act, one that he would make with love, as he had made ceramics daily for the past forty-four years.”
The Seattle Police Shooting of Native Woodcarver John T. Williams, 10 Years Later By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “I don’t think you can talk about police accountability in our region without also talking about the murder of John T. Williams.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Katie Engelhart, Katy Vine, Zach Baron, and Colin Dickey.
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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.”
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.
How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries By Irina Dumitrescu Feature A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
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.
“Do You Get Shit for Your Name?” By Osama Shehzad Feature When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.
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 Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Tana Ganeva, Garrett M. Graff, Janelle Monáe, Ellen Cushing, and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder.
‘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
How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries By Irina Dumitrescu Feature A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral By Yxta Maya Murray Feature In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
“Do You Get Shit for Your Name?” By Osama Shehzad Feature When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.
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.
Death as a Work of Art By Krista Stevens Highlight “He tried to explain that the tomb was his final creative act, one that he would make with love, as he had made ceramics daily for the past forty-four years.”
How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries By Irina Dumitrescu Feature A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral By Yxta Maya Murray Feature In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
“Do You Get Shit for Your Name?” By Osama Shehzad Feature When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.
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.”