On the Hotness of Not Getting Any
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | May 2020 | 10 minutes (2,500 words) Isolation is horny as fuck. Not for everyone, obviously, but if you’re single and you live alone. . . I mean, I have never thought this...
View ArticleLloyd’s Mattress
Scott Korb | Longreads | May 2020 | 18 minutes (4,490 words) 1. Our time is nearly up, but we’ve been living in our building on East 19th Street, in New York City, for more than a decade. It’s six...
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Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
Anne Thériault | Longreads | May 2020 | 33 minutes (8,371 words) From the notorious to the half-forgotten, Queens of Infamy, a Longreads series by Anne Thériault, focuses on world-historical women of...
View ArticleSo Much More Than Enough
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | May 2020 | 10 minutes (2,564 words) Lynn Shelton was the kind of artist no one asked for, but the only one you really wanted. The kind of person who was so good — so...
View ArticleSnapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List
Cleaning our basement recently, I found a box of old Canadian magazines. The covers were crisp, the bindings intact. Published between 2011 and 2013, I’d gathered these issues of The Walrus and...
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The NHL’s Lacrosse Takeover
Sam Riches | Longreads | June 2020 | 21 minutes (5,399 words) During the third period of a late October game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Calgary Flames, Andrei Svechnikov, a right-winger...
View ArticlePublic Education’s White Flight Problem
Livia Gershon| Longreads | June 2020 | 6 minutes (1,576 words) Last year, the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education came and went, and America’s public schools are the most segregated they’ve...
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Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
Sejal Shah | UGA Press | excerpted from This Is One Way to Dance | June 2020 | 14 minutes (3,746 words) “I think we’d like to make love now.” The words repeated: a murmur, a shimmer, a cat walking...
View ArticleWhat Didn’t Kill Her
Bernice L. McFadden | Longreads | June 2020 | 8 minutes (2,024 words) My brother never calls just to say hello. On that warm, blue-skied, beautiful May day, I was sitting in the backyard of my cousins’...
View ArticleHow Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England
Paul Brown | Longreads | June 2020 | 22 minutes (5,961 words) On April 18, 1872, Austin Bidwell walked into Green & Son tailors on London’s renowned Savile Row and ordered eight bespoke suits, two...
View ArticleTrading Spaces
Cheryl Jarvis | Longreads | June 2020 | 15 minutes (3,812 words) I’ve reread the letter so many times that coffee rings smudge the words. I’ve won a teaching position at the University of Southern...
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The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form
Ever since Black and Latino Americans created hip-hop at south Bronx block parties during the 1970s, this highly original, uniquely American music has continued to evolve, while simultaneously taking...
View ArticleTea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness
Laurie Penny | Longreads | June 2020 | 21 minutes (5,360 words) “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.” — Winston Churchill, unpublished memorandum “Will Mockney for...
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The Grieving Landscape
Heidi Hutner | Fulcrum Publishing | June 2020 | 16 minutes (4,305 words) We’re delighted to bring you an excerpt by Heidi Hutner from the anthology Doom With A View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of...
View ArticleSleeping with Amazon
David Gutowski | Longreads | July 2020 | 5 minutes (1,500 words) “At the end of the day, I have to sleep with myself.” Over the 18 years of publishing my literature and music website Largehearted Boy,...
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She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids
Kathryn Joyce | Longreads and The Marshall Project | July 2020 | 30 minutes (7,640 words) This article was co-published with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S....
View ArticleIn Absentia
Matthew Bremner | Longreads | July 2020 | 12 minutes (3,429 words) Clementina doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know her nine children, her grandchildren, or the names of her mother and father. She...
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets
Katy Kelleher | Longreads | June 2020 | 19 minutes (4,853 words) In The Ugly History of Beautiful Things, Katy Kelleher lays bare the dark underbellies of the objects and substances we adorn ourselves...
View ArticleThe Promised Land
Alice Driver | Longreads | July 2020 | 16 minutes (3,906 words) “Me with two suitcases, without knowing anything, so far away, not speaking the language, oh no, it was a total odyssey.” — Karla Avelar...
View ArticleMarmalade: A Very British Obsession
Olivia Potts | Longreads | July 2020 | 15 minutes (4,161 words) The dark wood-panelled dining room is quiet, heavy with concentration. Around the room, six pairs of judges sit at tables crowded with...
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