A Crying Public Shame
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | March 2020 | 10 minutes (2,569 words) “Can I talk to you in private?” No one wants to hear those words. The impulse is to assume you’ve done something egregiously wrong....
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The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
Rachel Nuwer | Longreads | March 2020 | 28 minutes (7,033 words) You can listen to our four-part “Cat People” podcast series on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s a gloomy...
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On Solitude (and Isolation and Loneliness [and Brackets])
Sarah Fay | Longreads | March 2020 | 18 minutes (5,122 words) The change came less as a chrysalis moment, an instant of emergence and blossoming, than after weeks of distress. My apartment at the...
View ArticleAll that Was Innocent and Violent: Girlhood in Post-Revolution Iran
Naz Riahi | Longreads | March 2020 | 29 minutes (7,251 words) A few months after I was born, just a year after The Islamic Revolution, Shee Shee and Baba bought a house and moved, with my 12-year-old...
View ArticleSeeding a Dark World with New Life
Sara B. Franklin | Longreads | March 2020 | 4 minutes (1,034 words) On Saturday, March 14, the day after public schools and our twin three years olds’ daycare closed in our Hudson Valley town, I sent...
View ArticleAlbatross People
Colin Daileda | Longreads | March 2020 | 7 minutes (2,000 words) My wife told me she had at last booked a flight back to Bengaluru and so I should relax that evening at our apartment. There I opened a...
View ArticleThe Coastal Shelf
June Amelia Rose | Longreads | March 2020 | 17 minutes (4,495 words) Writing the Mother Wound, a series co-published with Writing our Lives and Longreads, examines the complexities of mother love. * *...
View ArticleFinding Signs of Hope in Surprise Sugar Maples
Susan Krawitz | Longreads | March 2020 | 4 minutes (915 words) It wasn’t the threat of a maple syrup shortage that got me into the woods with a power drill, hammer, makeshift buckets, and spiles, but...
View Article“The Leaky Vessel”: On Lewis Carroll and the Perils of Being Female
Rachel Vorona Cote | Longreads | March 2020 | 10 minutes (2,706 words) We’re delighted to bring you a brief excerpt from “Chatterbox” — chapter 2 of Rachel Vorona Cote’s excellent book, Too Much: How...
View ArticleA Long, Lonely Time
Hannah Seidlitz | Longreads | March 2020 | 11 minutes (2,999 words) Writing the Mother Wound, a series co-published with Writing our Lives and Longreads, examines the complexities of mother love. * *...
View ArticlePerformance Art: On Sharing Culture
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | March 2020 | 9 minutes (2,261 words) The image that struck me most was the empty piazza. That Italian square — I believe it was in Venice — with no one in it. Maybe a bird...
View ArticleThe Danger of Desire
Faylita Hicks | Longreads | April 2020 | 28 minutes (7,041 words) I was late. Even though the album dropped in 2018, I didn’t know about the track until June of the next year. Which was tragic, because...
View Article‘Let’s Reset’: A Career Social Distancer Mends Some Fences
Sari Botton | Longreads | April 2020 | 6 minutes (1,521 words) To appreciate the significance of the shift I’m about to share with you, it helps to know a couple of things about me. The first is that...
View ArticleOn Watching Boys Play Music
Read an introduction to the series. Eryn Loeb | Longreads | April 2020 | 16 minutes (4,059 words) Hive is a Longreads series about women and the music that has influenced them. * * * Three songs into...
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We’re Not All in This Together
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | April 2020 | 8 minutes (2,043 words) Call it a dystopia, call it the apocalypse, whatever it is, the fact is, right now, we all have the capacity to kill each other. It’s...
View ArticleBody of Lies
Deenie Hartzog-Mislock | Longreads | April 2020 | 13 minutes (3,341 words) About two years ago, I stopped feeling beautiful. Around that time, my husband stopped touching me. “I don’t feel sexy,” I...
View ArticleHow to Tell Your Husband You’re a Witch
Lisa Richardson | Longreads | April 2020 | 15 minutes (4,084 words) On a Friday afternoon, pre-COVID-19, my husband dropped some ice-cubes into glasses, ready to make us screwdrivers and cheers to...
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Escaping Coronavirus Lockdown Through a Stranger’s Solitary Walks on YouTube
Aaron Gilbreath | Longreads | April 2020 | 25 minutes (6,184 words) As one of the millions of people currently trapped inside their homes thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, wondering if the virus will...
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On Vanishing
Lynn Casteel Harper | Catapult | excerpt from On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear | April 2020 | 18 minutes (4,925 words) I have officiated only one memorial service in...
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Little League, Revisited
Adam Kuhlmann | Longreads | April 2020 | 17 minutes (4,265 words) It’s a cold, gray morning in late December, the week that sags like bunting hung between Christmas and New Year’s. I pull my mother’s...
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