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Violet
Adele Oliveira | Longreads | January 2016 | 23 minutes (5,727 words) I don’t believe in fate, or that life events, both everyday and profound, unfold the way that they’re supposed to. Yet the first...
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This Better and Truer History
J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz | The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy | Viking | Sep. 2015 | 19 minutes (4,835 words) The Good Story is a new book-length discussion between...
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The Aristocratic Chef: An Interview with Daniel Le Bailly de La Falaise
Cody Delistraty | Longreads | February 2016 | 14 minutes (3,672 words) “The most stylish chef in the industry,” according to Vogue Paris. “A fairy tale child,” according to fashion editor André Leon...
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A Brief History of Solitary Confinement
Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | Introduction to Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement | The New Press | February 2016 | 20 minutes (5,288 words) Below is Jean Casella and...
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The Freelancers’ Roundtable
Eva Holland | Longreads |February 2016 | 25 minutes (6,339 words) There’s been more talk than usual lately about the state of freelance writing. There are increasing numbers of tools for freelancers:...
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Rainy Season
Amy Parker | Beasts & Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | February 2016 | 30 minutes (7,639 words) Our latest Longreads Exclusive is “Rainy Season,” a short story from Beasts & Children,...
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
Chris Jennings | Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism | Random House | January 2016 | 29 minutes (7,852 words) Below is an excerpt from Paradise Now, Chris Jennings’ look at the history of...
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To Consider Myself a Human Being
Ji Xianlin | The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution | New York Review Books | Jan. 2016 | 26 minutes (6,690 words) What follows are three excerpts from Ji Xianlin’s The Cowshed,...
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Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy
Kevin Bales | Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World | Spiegel & Grau | January 2016 | 34 minutes (9,162 words) Below is an excerpt from Blood and Earth, by...
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A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson
Jerome Charyn | A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century | Bellevue Literary Press | March 2016 | 24 minutes (6,471 words) Below is an excerpt from A Loaded Gun, by Jerome Charyn, who...
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You Can Do Anything if You Just Do it Slowly: An Interview with Lauren Groff
Cody Delistraty | Longreads | March 2016 | 12 minutes (3,332 words) 2015 was the year of Groff. President Obama called her novel Fates and Furies his favorite of the year. The New York Times named it...
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‘My Model for Writing Fiction Is to Replicate the Feeling of a Dream’
Jessica Gross | Longreads | March 2016 | 20 minutes (5,074 words) In 1989, Daniel Clowes started a comic-book series called Eightball. Instead of lauded superheroes following traditional plotlines,...
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Liar: A Memoir
Rob Roberge | Liar: A Memoir | Crown | February 2016 | 23 minutes (5,688 words) When Rob Roberge learns that he’s likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living...
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Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?
Kelsey Osgood | Atlas Obscura | March 2016 | 28 minutes (7,014 words) Our latest Exclusive is a new story by Kelsey Osgood, and is co-funded by Longreads Members and published by Atlas Obscura....
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The Vanishing: What Happened to the Thousands Still Missing in Mexico?
Grace Rubenstein | Longreads | April 2016 | 19 minutes (4,634 words) Somewhere in Mexico, someone knows the answer to the question that drives Araceli García Luna day and night. The person or persons...
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What Ever Happened to Planet Vulcan?
Thomas Leveson | The Hunt for Vulcan: … And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe | Random House | November 2015 | 27 minutes (7,305 words) The...
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One Man’s Quest For His Vinyl and His Past
Eric Spitznagel | Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for His Vinyl and His Past | Plume | April 2016 | 8 minutes (2,029 words) Motivated by a potent mix of seller’s regret and old-dude nostalgia, a...
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Our Well-Regulated Militia
Alexander Chee | Longreads | April 2016 | 15 minutes (3,713 words) My partner Dustin and I recently bought a cabin in a 1930s-era hunting association a few hours from New York City. Out in the yard...
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A Dead Superhero Is a Marvelous Corpse
Ramzi Fawaz | The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics | New York University Press| January 2016 | 25 minutes (6,662 words) The excerpt below is adapted from The...
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The Defenders
Matthew Van Meter | April 2016 | 25 minutes (6,411 words) This story was co-published with The Awl and funded by Longreads Members. On December 20, 2013, Christine Morales got up at seven to make...
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