78 Revolutions Around the Sun: A Joni Mitchell Reading List By Krista Stevens Poet, painter, composer, musician, and so much more.
Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games By Peter Rubin Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.
Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
Twenty Years Later: A 9/11 Reading List By Krista Stevens Six stories on the immediate and ongoing aftermath of the attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001.
A Tall Tree Reading List By Carolyn Wells Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.
I Will Always Love You: A Dolly Parton Reading List By Alison Fishburn Happy birthday, Dolly Parton! Here are seven longreads about the American singer-songwriter.
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Krista Stevens Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2020 By Krista Stevens The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
A Reading List on Travel Influencers and the Politics of a Place By Cheri Lucas Rowlands A reading list on travel influencers and the implications of Instagram on tourism and politics.
Cryin’, Dyin’, or Goin’ Somewhere: A Country Music Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Although the sound of the music has changed, country’s themes have endured.
A Genre of Myths: A Jazz Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Created in New Orleans and played around the world, the music we call jazz is filled with genius, legend, and tragedy.
Removing Beethoven’s Wig: A Classical Music Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Classical music is more than dead Europeans in wigs, starched collars, and stuffy concert halls. What classical music is, where it’s going, and what it still can be.
Smoking: A Legal Weed Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath The economy, the culture, and the promise of cannabis.
Down the Rabbit Hole: A Psychedelic Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath The science, the strangeness, the promise, of psychedelic journeys.
Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.
The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form By Aaron Gilbreath Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.
Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
This Week in Books: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! By Dana Snitzky “Oh, all the one-way tickets! / I haven’t found anything / more sorrowful than you / in the pockets of the world.”
Japan: A Longform Reading List of Longform Writing By Aaron Gilbreath Armchair travel is more important than ever, now that pandemic has forced us to stay indoors. Reading can take you across the ocean.
This Week In Books: I Bought Some Books By Dana Snitzky Am I ghoul for buying all these plague books?
This Week In Books: A ‘Melancholia’ or ‘Take Shelter’ Situation By Dana Snitzky I will become power-mad and lock my boyfriend inside forever!
This Month in Books: The Decameron Is Online By Dana Snitzky We can all quarantine alone, together, in one big villa in the cloud.
15 True Crime Longreads and the Questions We Should Ask Ourselves When Reading Them By Catherine Cusick By bringing new dimensions to an unjust process, a well-told story has the power to impact some of our most flawed systems.
8 Longreads by Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling By Catherine Cusick Eight must-read stories that investigate science, belief, and the human impulse to tell stories.
25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them By Catherine Cusick A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.
“The Ugliness of Greatness”: A Kobe Bryant Reading List By Matt Giles It has been a dozen days since the shocking death of the Los Angeles Lakers star. How do we talk about Kobe and his legacy on and off the court?
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2020 By Longreads Stories by Edwidge Danticat, Etgar Keret, Valeria Luiselli, and more.
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2019 By Longreads The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.