The Cult That Promises to Cure Addiction By Longreads Feature For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Matt Hamilton and Garrett Therolf, Lacy M. Johnson, Devin Kelly, Max Bell, and Rainesford Stauffer.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from David Rohde, Sarah Cox, Wyatt Williams, Joshua Hammer, and Kiana Fitzgerald, Paula Mejía, Matt Sonzala, Donnie Houston, Lance Scott Walker, Brandon Caldwell, Cat Cardenas, Jessi Pereira, and Sama’an Ashrawi.
Bringing Species Back … From the Brink By Carolyn Wells Highlight “You could actually restore a species to be even more diverse and healthier than it was before, Church says. “You can include diversity from multiple points in the globe and multiple points in time.””
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jennifer Senior, Aaron Hutchins, Molly Ball, Diana Hubbell, and Vauhini Vara.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ciara O’Rourke, Haley Britzky, Alissa Walker, Julie Sedivy, and Arika Okrent.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jason Fagone, Stephanie Mencimer, Roberta Hill, Kaleb Horton, and Kelundra Smith.
Sniffing Out Love By Carolyn Wells Highlight “Instead of swiping, the strategy is wiping: namely, one’s perspiration onto a cotton pad.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Wright Thompson, Fred Kaplan, Tori Marlan, Casey Gerald, and Sarah Everts.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sam Biddle, Leah Sottile, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Megan I. Gannon, and Justin Brake.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jill McCabe Johnson, Stacey Anderson, Megan Pillow, Barry Blanchard, and Elizabeth Rush.
The Cult That Promises to Cure Addiction By Longreads Feature For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jason Fagone, Stephanie Mencimer, Roberta Hill, Kaleb Horton, and Kelundra Smith.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ciara O’Rourke, Haley Britzky, Alissa Walker, Julie Sedivy, and Arika Okrent.
Even the Steam Had a Shadow By Longreads Feature “He couldn’t remember coming here, or going anywhere. He looked down at himself. With a writhe of horror, he found he couldn’t even remember getting dressed. His clothes were unfamiliar.”
Happy is a Relative State By Longreads Feature “The rest of my life will always be entwined with rheumatoid arthritis. But it’s my choice to also be something more, to not feel sick, to still find those shadows of a dancer, which is to say tiny flecks of magic, within me.”
Judge a Book Not By its Gender By lisawhill Feature Lisa Whittington-Hill suggests there’s a distinct gender bias in celebrity memoirs. Where female celebrities are expected to expose all, male writers get to write about whatever they want.
‘The Fledglings Are Out!’ By Longreads Feature “Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”
‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students By Seyward Darby Highlight The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.
The Cult That Promises to Cure Addiction By Longreads Feature For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.
What Happened to Milad? A Palestinian Father Searches for His Son. By Seyward Darby Highlight One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.
‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students By Seyward Darby Highlight The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.
The Syrian Rebels Who Found Refuge in Books By Carolyn Wells Highlight In a town under siege from Assad’s regime, a small group built a library from books rescued from the rubble.
“People are dying waiting” By Krista Stevens Highlight “Miguel Jr. and Jeannette are troubled that Miguel’s doctors didn’t present ECMO as an option, and then resisted the idea when the family suggested it.”
The State of Waiting By Caitlin Dwyer Feature Separated by war, boundaries, and immigration policies they cannot control, one young Yemeni couple refuses to give up on love.
The State We Are In: Neither Here, There, nor in Heaven By Madhushree Ghosh Feature On vaccine privilege in America and COVID-19 inequities in India.
