The Easter Island Schoolteacher Who Sparked a RevolutionThe remarkable story of a freedom struggle on a tiny island in the South Pacific. longreads the atavist excerpt
longreads.com Best of 2021: The Stories We Missed The pieces we didn’t get to — until now. Here’s our final Best of 2021 list: five great stories we missed this year, nominated by our readers and featured authors. longreads stories nonfiction essays
Best of 2021: Readers’ FavoritesThe stories our readers loved. longreads reader feedback essays journalism
The Top 5 Longreads of the WeekThis week, we’re sharing stories from bell hooks, Christopher Curtis, Kate Connolly, David Ramsey, and Henry Grabar.# longreads mmiw bell hooks reading journalism essays
Best of 2021: FeaturesThe deep dives that left us gasping for air. longreads journalism longform reading
The Big, Bonkers, British, Christmas PantomimeOh, yes I did! An attempt to explain the bizarre British Christmas pantomime tradition. longreads britain uk pantomime christmas christmas traditions
Best of 2021: Investigative ReportingThe journalism that made our jaws drop. longreads investigative journalism journalism reading
The Top 5 Longreads of the WeekThis week, we’re sharing stories from Greg Tate, Alicia Inez Guzmán, Christian Wallace, Laura Hoffman, and Connie Wang. longreads essays journalism weekend reads weekend reading
Best of 2021: Reported EssaysThe pieces that moved us the most this year. longreads best of 2021 essays reporting
schlinkblog A Rough Hodgepodge of Good Reads That Partially Reflects My Current Mental StateI’m coding a lot these days, so I’m reading more about tech and San Francisco and leaving New York. A higher percentage than normal of these live on Medium. Sorry. Starting to be OK with my Hatred of New YorkNew York Doesn’t Love You – “No one ‘wins’ New York…You will lose. Everyone loses.”The Expat – “To live in New York is to constantly be a borrower.” God, I fucking hate it here. San Francisco Sounds Like a Silly PlaceBay Watched – I kind of dig it, but it sounds like too much “hustling” for my tastes. Go West, Young Bank Bro – … and die. Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem – Still don’t trust anyone over 30.But “Tech” Has Some Good Things Otherwise I Wouldn’t Be Learning a Part of ItThe Values of the Web – I don’t want to be a hustler. I don’t want to be a salesman…We Don’t Sell Saddles Here – … But the good ones can give a hell of a speech sometimes.Hackers and Painters – I’m still not sure about these Paul Graham essays as a whole, but here’s one I dog-tagged that isn’t directly about how to get money out of his start-up incubator. Netflix’s Chaos Monkey – Netflix created a program that randomly takes part(s) of its system down as a test of its strength when things inevitably fail. And it’s got a great name. Facebook is an Anomaly – Some good nuggets on how communicating on the internet works, and how Facebook will soon be a ghost-town (fingers crossed). SexJames Salter’s A Sport and a Pastime – “Less important was the idea that I should give it to this guy, who was like, so busy and so tired all the time, so that before I walked away for good, for better, I would have let him know—if he wanted to know—what I had wanted from sex: Not another game, but a sport.” Fuck, need to re-read this book. BooksI finished Chandler’s The Big Sleep and thought it kind of sucked. On to Norman Rush’s Mating, which is fun so far (one-third in) and an adventure (both in plot and word choice) and talks about gender relations through what I’d realize is a totally fucked-up lens if I had any fucking smarts and has, more generally, kindled in me a nostalgia for a time when I was regularly instructed by educators to read novels written by white men in the 1980s. Sigh. long reads