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Making Sense of Our Compulsions
Jessica Gross | Longreads | February 2017 | 15 minutes (3,932 words) Checking our smartphones every few minutes. Making sure every spice jar is in the exact right place in the rack. Shopping....
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Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime...
Andrea Pitzer | Longreads | February 2017 | 8 minutes (1,600 words) The history of atrocity is littered with the corpses of scapegoats. When it comes to convincing people that their problems have a...
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What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee | Longreads | February 2017 | 18 minutes (4,276 words) Longreads is proud to feature an exclusive excerpt from Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My...
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A Shot in the Arm
Josh Roiland | Longreads | February 2017 | 14 minutes (3,710 words) “Who’s sticking today?” the man asked. He wore tan work boots and rough jeans. He told a friend in the waiting room that he had a...
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Writing Our America
Scott Korb | Longreads | February 2017 | 32 minutes (8,200 words) The following essay is adapted from a talk presented at Pacific University’s MFA in Writing Program. It includes advice from writers...
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This Was How Things Ended
Michael Hobbes | Longreads | February 2017 | 10 minutes (2,600 words) “Wait, so your ex called your boss and tried to get you fired?” This is me. “Genau.” This is Andy. We are on a break from German...
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Don’t Call My Daughter Princess. Call Her Madam President.
Sarah Stankorb | Longreads | February, 2017 | 12 minutes (2,917 words) My daughter Zoe was about 11 months old. Other strange men with silvered brows had referred to her as princess before. I’d read...
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The Anton Chekhov-George Saunders Humanity Kit: An Introduction
A little over three years ago I asked George Saunders whether I could sit in on one of his MFA classes at Syracuse, and, flabbergastingly, he said okay. This opportunity seemed particularly valuable at...
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Trilby, the Novel That Gave Us ‘Svengali’
Emma Garman | Longreads | February 2017 | 6 minutes (1,788 words) In the fall of 1894, a New Jersey reader wrote to George du Maurier, the Franco-British author and satirical cartoonist whose Harper’s...
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How David Bowie Came Out As Gay (And What He Meant By It)
Simon Reynolds | Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century | Dey Street Books| October 2016 | 19 minutes (5,289 words) Below is an excerpt from Shock and...
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Bird Man
Eva Holland | Longreads | February 2017 | 10 minutes (2641 words) Noah Strycker spotted the first bird before I made it from the parked car to the edge of the marsh. “It’s a rough-legged hawk,” he...
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The Story of Heady Topper, America’s Most Loved Craft Beer
Sam Riches | Longreads and Food & Wine Magazine | March 2017 | 14 minutes (3,489 words) For eight years, until Tropical Storm Irene struck the village of Waterbury, Vermont, the corner of South...
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Follow the Oil Trail and You’ll Find the Girls
Riayn Fergins | Longreads | March 2017 | 14 minutes (2,400 words) Duluth, Minnesota was dank and barren. Ice and mounted snow covered Lake Superior, save for scattered pools of howling waves. I...
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
Lauren Elkin | Flâneuse | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | March 2017 | 26 minutes (6,613 words) Below is the first chapter from Flâneuse, Lauren Elkin’s incisive hybrid book of memoir, cultural criticism...
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The Ban, the Wall: Bearing Witness
Reports say there is going to be another travel ban soon, perhaps even today. And so, standing on the precipice of our next great catastrophe, I have decided to take stock, as far as I can, of this...
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The Slave Who Outwitted George Washington
Erica Armstrong Dunbar | Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge | Atria / 37 Ink | March 2017 | 19 minutes (5,244 words) *** MOUNT VERNON Two years after the...
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A History of American Protest Music: How The Hutchinson Family Singers...
Tom Maxwell | Longreads | March 2017 | 9 minutes (2,170 words) On March 18, 1845, the Hutchinson Family Singers were huddled in a Manhattan boarding house, afraid for their lives. As 19th Century...
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A Conversation With Ariel Levy About Writing a Memoir That Avoids ‘Invoking...
Jessica Gross | Longreads | March 2017 | 17 minutes (4,391 words) When she was 22 and an assistant at New York Magazine, Ariel Levy, hungry for success and action, went to a nightclub for obese women...
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Falling in Love with Words: The Secret Life of a Lexicographer
Kory Stamper | Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries | Pantheon Books | March 2017 | 24 minutes (6,691 words) We’re proud to feature “Hrafnkell,” the first chapter of Word by Word: The Secret...
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The Restless Ghosts of Baiersdorf
Sabine Heinlein | Longreads | March 2017 | 25 minutes (6,248 words) David Birnbaum got off the train in Baiersdorf. The Bavarian village 12 miles north of Nuremberg as the crow flies made a pleasant,...
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