The Poke Paradox
Adam Skolnick | Longreads | February 2020 | 22 minutes (6,125 words) I. The Poke Sampler “When there’s a bowl of popcorn in the middle of the table, we think, I’m gonna eat two bites. Then we eat the...
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The Danger of Befriending Celebrities
Michael Musto | Longreads | February 2020 | 8 minutes (2,000 words) Meryl Streep doesn’t call me every week to go bowling. In fact, she doesn’t call me at all. And that’s a good thing. I honestly can’t...
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Searching For Mackie
Annie Hylton | Longreads | February 2020 | 20 minutes (8,310 words) This story was produced in collaboration with The Walrus. As Peter Basil remembers it, the week leading up to Father’s Day, in June...
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Postcard from the (Literal) Edge
Erin Khar | Longreads | February 2020 | excerpted from Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me, Park Row Books | 9 minutes (2,436 words) Valentine’s Day 2001 Her mother just...
View ArticleCarly Rae Jepsen’s Exhilarating, Emotionally Intelligent Pop Music
Rachel Vorona Cote | Longreads | February 2020 | 12 minutes (3,333 words) Every now and then, in one of her music videos or during a heady, live performance, singer Carly Rae Jepsen will close her...
View ArticleShelved: Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Tom Maxwell | Longreads | February 2019 | 14 minutes (3,966 words) On the evening of May 29, 1997, singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley and his roadie Keith Foti picked their way down the steep, weedy bank...
View ArticleHouse of the Century
Daisy Alioto | Longreads | February 2020 | 16 minutes (3,903 words) “A house is the physical manifestation of the ego” – Aline Kominsky-Crumb, “My Very Own Dream House” I. Security I have always...
View ArticleSight and Insight
Liane Kupferberg Carter | Longreads | February 2020 | 16 minutes (4,092 words) I was born with strabismus, an imbalance in the muscles that position the eyes. Strabismus: from the Greek strabismós,...
View ArticleSoli/dairy/ty
Liza Monroy | Longreads | February 2020 | 15 minutes (3,637 words) On the verge of turning 40, all my habits felt ingrained. So I was surprised when, late last February, I became vegan one morning,...
View ArticleWait, What?
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | February 2020 | 9 minutes (2,335 words) I used to think I was the only one who dealt with this particular existential crisis. It’s the one where every choice you make...
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“What Do I Know To Be True?”: Emma Copley Eisenberg on Truth in Nonfiction,...
Jacqueline Alnes | Longreads | February 2020 | 21 minutes (5,966 words) “Am I a journalist?” I found myself asking Emma Copley Eisenberg. On a sunny day in mid-October, Eisenberg sat adjacent to me...
View ArticleWelcome to Hive
“I was happy when I saw my dance all over,” Jalaiah Harmon, 14-year old dancer, choreographer, and creator of the Renegade dance told Taylor Lorenz of the New York Times. Last fall, the suburban...
View ArticleMiami: A Beginning
Read an introduction to the series. Jessica Lynne | Longreads | February 2020 | 10 minutes (2,737 words) Hive is a Longreads series about women and the music that has influenced them. * * * Much has...
View ArticleIf Miscarriage is So Normal, Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About It?
Anna Lea Hand | Longreads | March 2020 | 28 minutes (6,996 words) PART 1: If It’s So Normal, Why Aren’t People Talking About It? The entire time I am pregnant, the entire three-and-a-half months,...
View ArticleA Survey of My Right Arm
Ge Gao | The Threepenny Review | Fall 2019 | 15 minutes (3,057 words) Last summer, I woke up one morning to find my right hand couldn’t grab the doorknob to turn it open. The next thing I knew was...
View ArticleHow I Got My Shrink Back
Susan Shapiro | Longreads | February 2020 | 28 minutes (7,036 words) Rushing to see him that Friday evening in August, I turned the corner and was shocked to catch Haley leaving his brownstone. What...
View Article“We Are Not Lost Causes”
Mark Obbie | Longreads | March 2020 | 45 minutes (12,427 words) The three young men sauntering down a city sidewalk showed no signs of alarm as a thin man in a dark hoodie hopped out of the passenger...
View ArticleThe Criminalization of the American Midwife
Jennifer Block | March 2020 | 32 minutes (8,025 words) Elizabeth Catlin had just stepped out of the shower when she heard banging on the door. It was around 10 a.m. on a chilly November Wednesday...
View ArticleWhat Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don’t Matter Anymore?
Sarah Miller | Longreads | March 2020 | 7 minutes (1,800 words) A few months ago I was visiting my brother in suburban San Diego, a place that always makes me wonder if the world should just start...
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“I miss my body when it was ferocious” The Transfiguration of Paul Curreri
Brendan Fitzgerald | Longreads | March 2020 | 47 minutes (12,973 words) I had seen Paul Curreri a few times around Charlottesville — pushing a cart around the local Wegmans grocery, drinking seltzer at...
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