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Chasing the Harvest: ‘It Used to Be Only Men That Did This Job’
Gabriel Thompson | Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture | Voice of Witness / Verso Press | May 2017 | 22 minutes (6,254 words) The stories of the more than 800,000 men, women,...
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Learning to Swim in a Sea of Uncertainty
Katie Prout | Longreads | May 2017 | 12 minutes (2,916 words) This semester, I’ve been learning to swim. When I told her I didn’t know how, Stephanie laughed at me. “John can’t swim either,” she...
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From a Hawk to a Dove
Ray Cocks | Longreads | May 2017 | 11 minutes (2,844 words) Our latest Exclusive is an essay by Vietnam veteran Ray Cocks, co-funded by Longreads Members and published in collaboration with TMI...
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Pee and Fury: Testing the Limits of Bladder Control
Nina Sharma | Longreads | June 2, 2017 | 9 minutes (2,322 words) The first night of our vacation, I wake up in the middle of the night needing to pee. I’m tired, nestled in the hotel bed, and I...
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The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee
Cynthia R. Greenlee | Longreads | June 2017 | 2,900 words ( 12 minutes) In 1962, teenager George F. Jackson wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy with an appeal: “I am a thirteen-year-old colored...
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White Men
Namwali Serpell | Topic | June 2017 | 5 minutes (1,300 words) Our latest Exclusive is an essay by Namwali Serpell with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki. This story is co-funded by Longreads Members and...
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A Witness to Other People’s Lives, Not Living My Own
Jennifer Romolini | Weird in a World That’s Not | Harper Business | June 2017 | 10 minutes (2,475 words) Long before author Jennifer Romolini’s name appeared high up on the mastheads of publications...
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A Heart That Watches and Receives
Hampton Sides | Longreads | June 2017 | 13 minutes (3,083 words) Hampton Sides, historian and author of bestselling books including Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, gave the following...
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Curing My Flight Anxiety, One Book Tour at a Time
Jami Attenberg | Longreads | June 2017 | 9 minutes (2,138 words) There was a definitive start date to my flight anxiety. I know this because I was on an early morning flight back from a Midwestern...
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Twinless in Twinsburg
Anya Groner | Longreads | June 2017 | 20 minutes (5,065 words) I’m stopped at a red light in Twinsburg, Ohio, when I spot my first pair riding in the Jeep behind me. Matching blond hair, bug-eye...
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Pulse Nightclub Was My Home
Edgar Gomez | Longreads | June 2017 | 34 minutes (8,473 words) It was Christmas Day in Orlando, just over six months after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, and my brother, Marco, and I drove through...
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A Sociology of the Smartphone
Adam Greenfield | Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life | Verso | June 2017 | 27 minutes (7,433 words) Below is an excerpt from Radical Technologies, by Adam Greenfield. This story is...
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David Brown’s Quiet Resilience
David Gambacorta | Longreads | June 2017 | 15 minutes (3,755 words) David Brown was a few months into his tenure as the head of the Dallas Police Department when his cell phone started to hum on a...
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My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths
Pauline Campos | Longreads | June 2017 | 9 minutes (2,131 words) By the time I was eight, I knew how to pour the contents of a beer can into a travel mug without foam. I used to joke that this is why...
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The Tears of Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son is one of those books people collect in multiples, saving extra copies to give to friends. I used to joke about handing it out in place of Halloween candy. Fortunately,...
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My Father’s Adventure Was My Terror
Diana Whitney | Longreads | June 2017 | 8 minutes (2,009 words) Afterward, I wondered whether my father understood there was danger at the Afghan border. He thrived on adventure, had joined the...
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Undocumented Immigrant
J.M. Servín| For Love of the Dollar: A Portrait of the Artist as An Undocumented Immigrant | Unnamed Press | translated by Anthony Seidman | March 2017 | 18 minutes (4,894 words) The excerpt below is...
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Two-And-a-Half Minutes to Midnight: Our Fear of Nukes and How We Got Here
Elizabeth King | Longreads | June 2017 | 10 minutes (2645 words) Bug-out bags, self-designed evacuation plans, stockpiles in the garage. Most Americans born in or after the 1970s have probably...
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After Marriage Equality, to Party, or to Protest?
Spenser Mestel | Longreads | June 2017 | 16 minutes (4,021 words) June 26th, 2015 starts out as a regular Friday. At my summer internship at a financial fraud firm in Midtown East, Manhattan, I try...
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Faster Than the Speed of Sound: An Interview with Holly Maniatty
Cody Delistraty | Longreads | June 2017 | 11 minutes (2787 words) Holly Maniatty is moving faster than anyone in the Wu-Tang Clan. She bounces up and down, her whole body undulates, her hands fly as...
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