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Pregnant, then Ruptured
Joanna Petrone | Longreads | August 2017 | 28 minutes (7,729 words) It comes on suddenly as a gas main explosion, the feeling of being grabbed tightly from within and twisted. I am standing at the...
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In a Swimming Pool, Learning to Trust
Matt Grant | Longreads | August 2017 | 14 minutes (3,550 words) I’ve been treading water for almost 10 minutes and my limbs are starting to ache. It’s 5:28 on a humid evening in late July, and there...
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Family Band
Ben Rothenberg | Racquet and Longreads | August 2017 | 9 minutes (2,122 words) Our latest Exclusive is a new story by tennis writer Ben Rothenberg and produced in partnership with Racquet magazine. To...
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Why Oil-Loving Louisiana Should Embrace America’s Coming Offshore Wind Boom
Justin Nobel | Longreads | August 2017 | 8 minutes (2,051 words) The United States is on the verge of an energy transformation. This spring the nation’s first offshore wind farm officially began...
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Here at the End of All Things
Adrian Daub | Longreads | August 2017 | 20 minutes (5,033 words) 1. “The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was...
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I Want to Persuade You to Care About Other People
Danielle Tcholakian | Longreads | August 2017 | 23 minutes (5,681 words) A few years ago, my middle brother and I were in Boca Raton, Fla. for Thanksgiving, visiting my mother’s parents. We’re very...
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Wrapping the Sunday Paper For the Last Time
Andrew Bockhold | Longreads | August 2017 | 13 minutes (3,182 words) Pulling out of the gas station, the van jerked to a stop. The jolt sent me toppling off the two stacks of Sunday editions I was...
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Can Love Sparked at Burning Man Last in Everyday Life?
Maria Finn | Longreads | August 2017 | 18 minutes (4,403 words) There’s an adage that you should never make major life decisions right after Burning Man. Once back in your “default life,” wait three...
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Reflections of an Accidental Florist
Althea Fann | Crazyhorse | August 2017 | 19 minutes (5,375 words) But something always went out from me when I dug loose those carpets Of green, or plunged my elbows into the spongy yellowish moss of...
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America’s First Addiction Epidemic
Christopher Finan| Drunks: An American History | Beacon Press | June 2017 | 28 minutes (7,526 words) The following is an excerpt from Drunks, by Christopher Finan. This story is recommended by...
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How the NBA Failed Royce White
Sam Riches | Longreads | August 2017 | 18 minutes (4,650 words) Bound by professional obligation, the announcer is feigning impartiality but a wobble in his lilt, a slip of exasperation, gives him...
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American Sphinx
Colin Dickey | Longreads | August 2017 | 14 minutes | 3380 words We had come to a place muted of light. Every day felt like a potential backsliding, the news unrelenting, as though the nation had...
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On NYC’s Paratransit, Fighting for Safety, Respect, and Human Dignity
Britney Wilson | Longreads | September 2017 | 18 minutes (4,410 words) He pulled up on the wrong side of the street fifteen minutes late for my pick-up time. I was sitting outside, in front of the...
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Disguised in Plain Clothes, but No Superman
Chris Wiewiora | Longreads | September 2017 | 13 minutes (3,328 words) Zoe looks right through me as she boards my bus. She was one of my best public speaking students at Iowa State and admirably...
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Atomic City
Justin Nobel | Longreads | September 2017 | 12 minutes (2,920 words) In the middle of Idaho’s Lost River desert is a green street sign that reads “Atomic City” with an arrow pointing to a lonely gravel...
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I Was a 9-Year-Old Playboy Bunny
Shannon Lell | Longreads | September 2017 | 9 minutes (2,345 words) My first sex partner was a homemade three-foot-tall Raggedy Ann doll lovingly stitched together by a distant relative. She wore a...
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Weighing Justice With a Jury of Her ‘Peers’
Susana Morris | Longreads | September 2017 | 20 minutes (4,997 words) I received the notice for jury duty with mild annoyance. I hoped I wouldn’t get picked as I put the date of the summons on my...
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The Whistleblower in the Family
Pearl Abraham | Michigan Quarterly Review | September 2017 | 18 minutes (5,007 words) “The power of narrative stems from the narrator’s ability to be there and then, as well as here and now.” — C. Fred...
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Raising Brown Boys in Post-9/11 America
Sorayya Khan | Longreads | September 2017 | 23 minutes (5,871 words) My mother was white and my father was brown, my mother Dutch, my father Pakistani. If she’d had a choice, she would have been brown....
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The Trump Whisperer: A Conversation with Washington Post Reporter David...
Cody Delistraty | Longreads | September 2017 | 8 minutes (2193 words) Before David Fahrenthold won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for covering Trump’s candidacy, he spoke to the...
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