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‘Trump Wouldn’t Be President Without the Neoliberalization of New York City’
Sari Botton | Longreads | July 2017 | 18 minutes (4,600 words) In 2007, when a writer going by the pseudonym of “Jeremiah Moss” launched the blog Vanishing New York lamenting the closure of one iconic...
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Twelve Truths About My Life With Bell’s Palsy
Pam Moore | Longreads | July 2017 | 16 minutes (4,065 words) 1. My face—and my life—split in half ten days after my second daughter was born. In the grainy iPhone photos taken immediately after...
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Helping My Son Choose Between the Cub Scouts and His Beliefs about God
Kate Abbott | Longreads | July 2017 | 11 minutes (2,730 words) My 8-year-old son Henry believes in Santa but not in God. I frequently question when to break the news about Santa, but I’ve never...
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I’ve Found Her
Martha Baillie | Brick | Summer 2017 | 17 minutes (4,882 words) This essay first appeared in Brick, the beloved biannual print journal of nonfiction based in Canada and read throughout the world. Our...
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Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park
Mabel Rosenheck | Longreads | July 2017 | 20 minutes (4,918 words) On April 27, 2003, I sat with two friends in arena seats in Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Inside, the building looks...
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The Boy With the Coin-Filled Cellophane Cigarette Wrapper, and Me
Amber Leventry | Longreads | July 2017 | 12 minutes (3,016 words) I entered my daughter’s kindergarten classroom and walked behind her with enough distance to accommodate the swinging of her backpack...
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My Mongolian Spot
Jennifer Hope Choi | The American Scholar | August 2017 | 17 minutes (4,250 words) First you should know: I was born with a blue butt. So was my mother. Thirty-two years and many thousands of miles...
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The Arsonist Was Like a Ghost
Monica Hesse | American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land | Liveright | August 2017 | 17 minutes (4,100 words) In the middle of the night on December 15, 2012, Lois Gomez sat up in bed....
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And How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang | The Missouri Review | Spring 2017 | 17 minutes (4,793 words) This short story first appeared in The Missouri Review, the quarterly print journal produced at the University of Missouri...
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The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie | Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color | Beacon Press | August 2017 | 18 minutes (4,744 words) Below is an excerpt from Invisible No More, by Andrea...
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How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons
Rachel Hoge | Longreads | August 2017 | 17 minutes (4,315 words) Róisín would do all the talking. She’s the chapter leader of the support group in Brooklyn, and accustomed to the microphone. She’d...
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The Brief Career and Self-Imposed Exile of Jutta Hipp, Jazz Pianist
Aaron Gilbreath | This Is: Essays on Jazz | Outpost19 | August 2017 | 21 minutes (5,900 words) In 1960, four years after the venerable Blue Note Records signed pianist Jutta Hipp to their label, she...
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Whose Fault Was Dunkirk?
Lynne Olson | Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War | Random House | April 2017 | 15 minutes (3,983 words) Below is an excerpt from Last Hope...
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The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
Kate Daloz | Longreads | August 2017 | 11 minutes (2700 words) The posters began to appear around the city just after New Year’s, 1967. “A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-in…Bring food to share,...
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Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid
Amelia Urry | Grist | August 2017 | (3,139 words) The following Longreads Exclusive was produced in partnership with Grist. When people ask Luke Evslin why he decided to live off the grid, he starts...
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In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?
Leigh Shulman | Longreads | August 2017 | 20 minutes (4,962 words) Still breathless from dragging our heavy bag down the hill and through the mud, I never expected to be turned away on arrival. “No...
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Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind
Kevin Sampsell | Longreads | August 2017 | 15 minutes (3,752 words) Every time I talk to my mom on the phone, just as I’m getting ready to say goodbye, she slips in an abrupt update about her parents...
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You Are a Jigsaw Puzzle with Missing Food-Shaped Pieces
Lindsay Hunter | Longreads | August 2017 | 12 minutes (3,035 words) I was a kid, somewhere between age seven and 10, when our neighbor rushed in telling my mom she only weighed 129 pounds. My mom was...
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How a Journalist Uncovered the True Identity of Jihadi John
Souad Mekhennet | I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad | Henry Holt & Company | June 2017 | 19 minutes (5,112 words) Below is an excerpt from I Was Told to Come Alone, by...
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What Thomas Jefferson Taught Me About Charlottesville and America
Joshua Adams | Longreads | August 2017 | 11 minutes (2,840 words) Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I had no idea about the University of Virginia. I knew I wanted to go away for college, and...
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