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How Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England
By Paul Brown Feature

In Victorian London, a gang of U.S. hustlers attempts a ten-million-dollar heist on the safest bank in the world. Can the detective who inspired Sherlock Holmes catch them?

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Longreads Best of 2019

A collection of our favorite stories from last year
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The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
By Rachel Nuwer Feature

A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?

Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
By Anne Thériault Feature

History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Wesley Lowery, Sarah Bellamy, Shawn Yuan, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and Gabrielle Bellot.

Latest Picks

My Black Ancestors Fled America For Freedom. I Left Canada to Find a Home. Now Both Countries Must Fight For a Better World
By Debra Thompson  / The Globe and Mail
Bone, Blood & Bigots: On The Liberation of L.B. Jones
By Michael A. Gonzales  / CrimeReads
Pandemic Time
By Venkatesh Rao  / Noema
A Deadly Mosquito-Borne Illness Is Brewing in the Northeast
By Oscar Schwartz  / OneZero
Rewriting Country Music’s Racist History
By Elamin Abdelmahmoud  / Rolling Stone
The Strong, Silent Type
By Samer Kalaf  / Popula
From Soldier to Worker
By Maya Dukmasova  / Chicago Reader
City of Solitude
By Shawn Yuan  / The California Sunday Magazine
How J.K. Rowling Betrayed the World She Created
By Gabrielle Bellot  / LitHub
Walking Is Making a Major Comeback
By Gloria Liu  / Outside
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Latest Posts

Hearing Voices
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

Even after he quit smoking marijuana, one young college student couldn’t escape the auditory hallucinations that he’d first experienced during heavy use.

Four Stories from Wuhan
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“From the moment my mother died, I haven’t stopped thinking about how I could have saved her.”

COVID-19 and the Fight for Justice
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“And yet, even though this health crisis reflects our nation’s political, social, and civic infrastructure, this plague has no consideration for morality. “

Rout the Racism From Your Very Bones
By Michelle Weber Highlight

“What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”

The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form
By Aaron Gilbreath Feature

Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.

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This Week in Books: Pain and Power
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

“And it will hurt, but we won’t be the ones doing all of the feeling, finally.” -Harmony Holiday

The PTSD of Everyday Life
By Michelle Weber Highlight

The mental and physical toll of life in a white supremacist state is unavoidable for BIPOC, even if it manifests differently for different people.

Life in the Chelsea Hotel During Pandemic
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

The remaining residents face isolation, and the challenges of preserving their history while enduring the present.

Trading Spaces
By Cheryl Jarvis Feature

Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.

India’s Journalistic Source of Narrative Nonfiction 
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

The dangers of journalists speaking the truth will not slow this Indian magazine down.

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Popular Posts

Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
By Anne Thériault Feature

History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.

Looter to Who? James Baldwin on Racism in America
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

In 1968, essayist, novelist and activist James Baldwin spoke with Esquire about racism in America, Dr. Martin Luther King, poverty and police brutality. In our current era of high profile police violence in communities like Ferguson, Missouri, and protests in Baltimore, Maryland, Baldwin’s words sound as prescient and, unfortunately, fresh as they did forty-seven years […]

Instacart: Shop ‘Til You Drop
By Krista Stevens Highlight

‘“People are disposable to them,” Rachel says. “They don’t care.”’

Shelved: The Misfits’ 12 Hits From Hell
By Tom Maxwell Feature

For a bunch of rock ‘n’ rollers creating the horror punk genre, the Misfits sure were sensitive.

The NHL’s Lacrosse Takeover
By Sam Riches Feature

How two kids from London, Ontario birthed the most unique goal in hockey’s history.

What I Want to Know of Kindness
By Devin Feature

On masculinity, grief, and learning from suffering.

Books

This Week in Books: Pain and Power
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

“And it will hurt, but we won’t be the ones doing all of the feeling, finally.” -Harmony Holiday

Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
By Longreads Feature

At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.

This Week in Books: Bullets and Gas
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

What a country.

This Week in Books: Pale Horse on the One Hand, Pale Rider on the Other
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

I sometimes forget that it’s all the same thing.

This Week in Books: Anarchist Ice Cream and Other Dairies
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

Or, the newsletter in which I conclude that time is a flat circle.

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Current Events

COVID-19 and the Fight for Justice
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“And yet, even though this health crisis reflects our nation’s political, social, and civic infrastructure, this plague has no consideration for morality. “

Rout the Racism From Your Very Bones
By Michelle Weber Highlight

“What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”

So Much More Than Enough
By Soraya Roberts Feature

My favorite director, Lynn Shelton, died suddenly this month at the age of 54. Did the spirit of indie filmmaking go with her?

On the Hotness of Not Getting Any
By Soraya Roberts Feature

Edging, or extending the time leading up to an orgasm, is almost a character of its own in Normal People, Run, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It also has a lot to teach us about sexuality and consent.

What Do We Do Without Live Music?
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

Those of us who live for musical performances must find other ways to temporarily live without them.

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Essays & Criticism

Rout the Racism From Your Very Bones
By Michelle Weber Highlight

“What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”

Trading Spaces
By Cheryl Jarvis Feature

Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.

What Didn’t Kill Her
By Bernice L. McFadden Feature

Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.

Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
By Longreads Feature

At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.

Public Education’s White Flight Problem
By Livia Gershon Feature

More than 50 years after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, little has changed, and several groups are hoping to use policy and practice to fix this longstanding issue.

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