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My Brown Dad Voted for Trump
By Anjoli Roy Feature

Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

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Bundyville: The Remnant

What if we told you that in the summer of 2016, in a rural Western town, there was a bombing you never heard about?
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Cross Talk
By Jacqueline Alnes Feature

Jacqueline Alnes wrestles with identity, belonging, and privilege after a crisis of faith at a Missouri-based Christian Kamp 9,000 miles from her Indonesian home.

Tar Bubbles
By Melissa Matthewson Feature

Melissa Matthewson remembers the flights of fancy that kept her company as a young girl, and bears witness to her daughter’s.

The Speaking Length
By Josh Roiland Feature

What we mean never fully transmits into what is understood.

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The Mister Rogers No One Saw
By Jeanne Marie Laskas  / The New York Times Magazine
Inside the Toxic Culture of the Nike Oregon Project ‘Cult’
By Chris Chavez  / Sports Illustrated
My Brown Dad Voted for Trump
By Anjoli Roy  / Longreads
‘If Andrew Yang Can Unite a YouTube Comment Section, He Can Unite the Nation’
By Drew Magary  / GEN
How The Kremlin’s Assassins Sowed Terror Through The Streets Of London While British Authorities Scrambled To Stop Them
By Heidi Blake  / BuzzFeed
The Grocery Store Where Politics Meets Produce
By Alexandra Schwartz  / The New Yorker
Portrait of the Artist: An Oral History of David Berman at UVA
By Molly Minturn  / UVA Today
The Homeownership Obsession
By Katy Kelleher  / Curbed
I Bought an Elephant to Find Out How to Save Them
By Paul Kvinta  / Outside
‘American Horror Story’: The Prison Voices you Don’t Hear from Have the Most to Tell Us
By Melissa Brown  / Montgomery Advertiser
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How Mister Rogers Found Inspiration in the Everyday
By Krista Stevens Highlight

‘“I think that how we were first loved — or not — has a great deal to do with what we create and how,” Fred once told me.’

It Was Putin, on British Soil, Using his Poison Factory
By Krista Stevens Highlight

Trying to keep a mouthy Russian oligarch safe from Vladimir Putin is harder than it looks. Especially when the oligarch has a penchant for publicly poking the bear.

‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’
By Zan Romanoff Feature

Nina MacLaughlin discusses her retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “[In] my very vague high school memories…there was no discussion of the fact that this book is just rape after rape after rape.”

The Living Nightmare of Homeownership
By Catherine Cusick Highlight

The manmade dream of owning a home wasn’t built on a solid foundation.

Stumbling Into Joy
By Kate Hopper Feature

The electric bass chose her, but it took 44 years to heed the call.

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OK Listener, We’ll Talk About OK Boomer
By Longreads Commentary

Longreads editors chat with Internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz about ok boomer, TikTok, patriotism, and more.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
By Longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Melissa Brown, Brendan I. Koerner, Christopher Mathias, and Yiyun Li.

The Alabama “Corrections” System: An American Horror Story
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“When you lay down to go to sleep, you better be prayed up, because there’s no guarantee you’re waking up.”

Every One of Us Is Other: Looking Back on Representation in “Heavenly Creatures” 25 Years Later
By Alex Difrancesco Feature

Alex DiFrancesco reflects on Peter Jackson’s nuanced approach to representation in the critically acclaimed film.

Burning Out
By Sarah Trent Feature

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

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The Art of Losing Friends and Alienating People
By Laura Lippman Feature

Laura Lippman, admittedly a rotten friend, is bummed by the ways in which friendships end as one gets older.

I’m 72. So What?
By Catherine Texier Feature

Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.

The Final Five Percent
By Tim Requarth Feature

If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials — but one neuroscientist discovers that assigning crime a biological basis creates more issues than it solves.

The Name Change Dilemma
By Hannah Howard Feature

Hannah Howard considers tradition, identity, and love as she navigates the decision whether to keep her name after her wedding.

Burning Out
By Sarah Trent Feature

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

Can We Ever Make It Suntory Time Again?
By Aaron Gilbreath Feature

Excellent Japanese whiskies were easy to come by, until suddenly they weren’t. What happened? And why can’t one whisky aficionado let go?

Books

It Was Putin, on British Soil, Using his Poison Factory
By Krista Stevens Highlight

Trying to keep a mouthy Russian oligarch safe from Vladimir Putin is harder than it looks. Especially when the oligarch has a penchant for publicly poking the bear.

‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’
By Zan Romanoff Feature

Nina MacLaughlin discusses her retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “[In] my very vague high school memories…there was no discussion of the fact that this book is just rape after rape after rape.”

This Month In Books: The Book Is an Escape Tool
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

Sometimes telling a story is the only way to escape it.

Why Lhasa de Sela Matters
By Longreads Feature

Raised in a school bus by itinerant hippie parents, with one foot in Mexico and one in the US, the singer blossomed into her true multicultural self in bilingual Montreal.

‘I’m a Big Fan of Writing To Find Out What You Don’t Know.’
By Adam Morgan Feature

Mark Haber discusses “Reinhardt’s Garden” and its protagonist’s quest for a true understanding of melancholy: “not a feeling but a mood, not a color but a shade, not depression but not happiness either…”

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Current Events

OK Listener, We’ll Talk About OK Boomer
By Longreads Commentary

Longreads editors chat with Internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz about ok boomer, TikTok, patriotism, and more.

Burning Out
By Sarah Trent Feature

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

The Podcast That Explains Why We’re All Wrong 
By Mark Armstrong Commentary

How Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes debunk news scandals of the past.

When It Comes to the Climate Crisis, Don’t Forget the Power of the States
By Livia Gershon Feature

Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.

Influence: Who Gains It and Who Wields It and Who Abuses It
By Longreads Commentary

On the fate of Deadspin, recent longreads on Airbnb and influencers, and the uncanny canon of Wakefield Press.

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Essays & Criticism

My Brown Dad Voted for Trump
By Anjoli Roy Feature

Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

Tar Bubbles
By Melissa Matthewson Feature

Melissa Matthewson remembers the flights of fancy that kept her company as a young girl, and bears witness to her daughter’s.

Cross Talk
By Jacqueline Alnes Feature

Jacqueline Alnes wrestles with identity, belonging, and privilege after a crisis of faith at a Missouri-based Christian Kamp 9,000 miles from her Indonesian home.

The Speaking Length
By Josh Roiland Feature

What we mean never fully transmits into what is understood.

Every One of Us Is Other: Looking Back on Representation in “Heavenly Creatures” 25 Years Later
By Alex Difrancesco Feature

Alex DiFrancesco reflects on Peter Jackson’s nuanced approach to representation in the critically acclaimed film.

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