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Wimbledon: Where Women Wait
By Ben Rothenberg Feature

Women still aren’t treated equally at Wimbledon.
Friends: We Need Your Help
to Fund More Stories
A Woman In Love Is a Woman Alone
By Francesca Giacco Feature

On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women.”
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Mirrors
By Katy Kelleher Feature

Mirrors are sparkly and shiny and hypnotic. They’ve fascinated us for thousands of years. And they might show us a lot more about our society’s misplaced priorities than we care to see.
Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents
By Michael Washburn Feature

In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.

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The Empire Strikes Back: “Atomic Dog” and the Rebirth of Parliament-Funkadelic in the Early 1980s
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The Cost of Reading
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Road Tripping With the Amazon Nomads
By Josh Dzieza  / The Verge
The Young Hands That Feed Us
By Valeria FernĂĄndez , Karen Coates  / Pacific Standard
Serena Williams Poses Unretouched
By Serena Williams  / Harper’s Bazaar
Retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach, then he built a secret world for them
By Deborah Netburn  / Los Angeles Times
Ivar’s the Great
By Tove Danovich  / Eater
My Unsexual Revolution
By Diane Shipley  / Longreads
Searching for Keith
By Sarah Tory  / Hakai Magazine
Inside the 21st-Century British Criminal Underworld
By Duncan Campbell  / The Guardian
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The Big Sick
By Soraya Roberts Feature

Vomit culture keeps repeating on us because who doesn’t enjoy a good puke.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
By Longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, we’re sharing stories from Gabriel Thompson, Tim Murphy, Deborah Netburn, Tove Danovich, and Sirin Kale.
The Cost of Reading
By AyƟegĂŒl SavaƟ Feature

AyƟegĂŒl SavaƟ contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.

Putin’s Rasputin
By Longreads Feature

Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
Bivalves of the Heart
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

Clams, family, and fried fish.

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Protecting the Unicorns Beneath the Sea: The Secret Seahorse Colony of Long Beach
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“And if you’ve never seen a seahorse in the wild before, you will feel honored and awed, as if you’ve just seen a unicorn beneath the sea.”
Lions, Tigers, and a Rabbit Named Bugs: A Reading List on Animal-Human Interactions
By Jacqueline Alnes Reading List

What kinds of relationships exist between humans and animals, and what well-intentioned actions from humans bring harm?
My Unsexual Revolution
By Diane Shipley Feature

Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what ‘normal’ is, anyway.
Remembering JoĂŁo Gilberto
By Tom Maxwell Feature

Eccentricity was inseperable from this musical innovator’s artistic vision.
How To Embrace Professional Decline
By Carolyn Wells Highlight

As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?

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Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion
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Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.
How I Became ‘Rich’
By Stacy Torres Feature

During a rare opportunity to vacation in Hawai’i, Stacy Torres is forced to confront her status as better off than where she came from.

Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents
By Michael Washburn Feature

In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.
‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’
By Sam Jaffe Goldstein Feature

The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you.
NestlĂ© Is Sucking the World’s Aquifers Dry
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

The multinational corporation is gradually privatizing a natural resource.
Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women
By Longreads Feature

The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.

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A Woman In Love Is a Woman Alone
By Francesca Giacco Feature

On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women.”
Putin’s Rasputin
By Longreads Feature

Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
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By Michael Washburn Feature

In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.
What Is Elizabeth Rush Reading? : Books on Antarctic Adventure, Ice, Motherhood
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

“I sometimes wonder if this continent of ice is begging for a different kind of story to be told about it.”
‘If an Animal Talks, I’m Sold’: An Interview with Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
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Wimbledon: Where Women Wait
By Ben Rothenberg Feature

Women still aren’t treated equally at Wimbledon.
Putin’s Rasputin
By Longreads Feature

Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
Editor’s Roundtable: All Things Being Unequal (Podcast)
By Longreads Commentary

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, Columbia Review of Journalism, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard.
Editor’s Roundtable: Just Put Some Eyes On There (Podcast)
By Longreads Commentary

Longreads editors discuss stories in Grub Street, The New Yorker, Gay Magazine, and The Verge.
¥Ay qué niñas!
By Alice Driver Feature

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The Cost of Reading
By AyƟegĂŒl SavaƟ Feature

AyƟegĂŒl SavaƟ contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.

My Unsexual Revolution
By Diane Shipley Feature

Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what ‘normal’ is, anyway.
How To Embrace Professional Decline
By Carolyn Wells Highlight

As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?

Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55
By lisawhill Feature

Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.

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