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The Story of H.M.: The Amnesiac Who Profoundly Changed the Way We Think About...
Sam Kean | The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons | 2014 | 12 minutes (3,008 words) For this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to share a story from The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, a new...
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'Friendship': The Full First Chapter from Emily Gould's New Novel
Emily Gould | Friendship | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | July 2014 | 8 minutes (1,893 words) Below is the opening chapter of Friendship, the new novel by Emily Gould, who we’ve featured often on...
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Curses: A Tribute to Losing Teams and Easy Scapegoats
Barry Grass | The Normal School | Spring 2014 | 18 minutes (4,537 words) 1st Late in every February, Major League Baseball players report to Spring Training. Every year in Kansas City this is...
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All You Have Eaten: On Keeping a Perfect Record
Illustration: Jason Polan Rachel Khong | Lucky Peach | Spring 2014 | 20 minutes (5,009 words) * * * Over the course of his or her lifetime, the average person will eat 60,000 pounds of food, the weight...
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The Skies Belong to Us: How Hijackers Created an Airline Crisis in the 1970s
Brendan I. Koerner | The Skies Belong to Us | 2013 | 25 minutes (6,186 words) ‘There Is No Way to Tell a Hijacker by Looking At Him’ When the FAA’s antihijacking task force first convened in February...
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Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American?
Russell Cobb | This Land Press | August 2014 | 16 minutes (3,976 words) This Land PressFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share a brand new essay from Oklahoma’s This Land Press,...
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Call It Rape
Margot Singer | The Normal School | 2012 | 23 minutes (5,683 words) The Normal SchoolThanks to Margot Singer and The Normal School for sharing this story with the Longreads community.Subscribe to The...
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The Believer Interview: Ice Cube
Linda Saetre | The Believer | 2004 | 26 minutes (6,574 words) The below interview is excerpted from The Believer’s new book, Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer...
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Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams, with Benjamin Hedin | Radio Silence | March 2014 | 11 minutes (2,690 words) Radio SilenceFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share a first-time-ever memoir by...
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‘Mango, Mango!’ A Family, a Fruit Stand, and Survival on $4.50 a Day
Douglas Haynes | Orion | Summer 2014 | 22 minutes (5,391 words) OrionThis Longreads Exclusive comes from the latest issue of Orion magazine—subscribe to the magazine or donate for more great stories...
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How to Spell the Rebel Yell
Elena Passarello | The Normal School | 2010 | 14 minutes (3,470 words) The Normal SchoolOur latest Longreads Member Pick is a deep dive into the sounds of history, from Elena Passarello and The Normal...
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The Prodigal Prince: Richard Roberts and the Decline of the Oral Roberts Dynasty
Kiera Feldman | This Land Press | September 2014 | 34 minutes (8,559 words) This Land PressWe’re proud to present a new Longreads Exclusive from Kiera Feldman and This Land Press: How Richard Roberts...
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Interview: Caitlin Moran on the Working Class, Masturbation, and Writing a Novel
Jessica Gross | Longreads | Sept. 25, 2014 | 13 minutes (3,300 words) Caitlin Moran has worked as a journalist, critic, and essayist in the U.K. for over two decades, since she was 16. In her 2011...
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The Honey Hunters
Michael Snyder | Lucky Peach | Summer 2014 | 20 minutes (4,960 words) Lucky PeachOur latest Longreads Exclusive comes from Michael Snyder and Lucky Peach—a trip into the Sundarbans, where groups of...
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Your Inner Drone: The Politics of the Automated Future
Nicholas Carr | The Glass Cage: Automation and Us | October 2014 | 15 minutes (3,831 words) The following is an excerpt from Nicholas Carr‘s new book, The Glass Cage, out today. Our thanks to Carr...
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#Nightshift: Excerpts from an Instagram Essay
Jeff Sharlet | September 2014 | 12 minutes (2,802 words) 1. Snapshots Dunkin Donuts, West Lebanon, New Hampshire The night shift, for me, is a luxury, the freedom to indulge my insomnia by writing at a...
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Interview: Vela Magazine Founder Sarah Menkedick on Women Writers and...
Cheri Lucas Rowlands | Longreads | Oct. 2 2014 | 10 minutes (2,399 words) Three years ago, Sarah Menkedick launched Vela Magazine in response to the byline gender gap in the publishing industry, and to...
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Interview: Simon Rich on Guilt, Humor Writing, and Being the Worst Person Ever
Jessica Gross | Longreads | Oct. 2014 | 17 minutes (4,290 words) By the time Simon Rich graduated from Harvard, where he served as president of the Harvard Lampoon, he had a two-book deal from Random...
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The Art of Arrival: Rebecca Solnit on Travel and Friendship
Rebecca Solnit | Orion | Summer 2014 | 20 minutes (4,780 words) OrionOur latest Longreads Exclusive comes from Rebecca Solnit and Orion magazine—subscribe to the magazine or donate for more great...
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Untangling the Knot: My Search for Democracy in the Modern Family
Sabine Heinlein | Longreads | October 28, 2014 | 16 minutes (3,966 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) No one has assessed the family’s dark side quite as fittingly as R.D. Laing,...
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