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Editors’ Picks Features Topics Best Of 2019
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Shades of Grey
By Ashley Stimpson Feature

In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?

Friends: We Need Your Help
to Fund More Stories

Longreads Best of 2019

A collection of our favorite stories from last year
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An Atlas of the Cosmos
By Shannon Stirone Feature

We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.

Longreads Honored with 14 Notable Mentions in ‘Best American’ Series
By Longreads Commentary

Our cup runneth over! Congratulations to all!

“The Final Five Percent” Wins 2020 Science in Society Journalism Award
By Longreads Highlight

Congratulations to Tim Requarth, whose Longreads essay has won the 2020 award in the Longform Narratives category.

Latest Picks

Arrested, Tortured, Imprisoned: The U.S. Contractors Abandoned in Kuwait
By Doug Bock Clark  / The New York Times Magazine
Data Disappeared
By Alex Kaufman , Chris D’Angelo , Delphine D’Amora , Emily Peck , Kate Sheppard  / HuffPost Highline
AOC’s Next Four Years
By Michelle Ruiz  / Vanity Fair
What to Do About Ahav?
By Hannah Dreier  / The Washington Post
The Death and Life of the Greatest American City
By Glynnis MacNicol  / GEN
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
By Rhaina Cohen  / The Atlantic
‘It’s the Most Outrageous Thing I’ve Ever Seen. It Makes No Sense.’
By Michael Hall  / Texas Monthly
Asylum Is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died With It.
By Ian Gordon  / Mother Jones
The Eighth Wonder of the World*
By Josh Dzieza  / The Verge
Married with Two Kids, and Seeking an Abortion in West Virginia
By Christa Parravani  / Vogue
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Latest Posts

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter Eisler, Linda So, Jason Szep, Grant Smith, Ned Parker, and Jaed Coffin, Sarah Gilman, Katy Kelleher, and Irris Makler.

The Toll of Separation
By Carolyn Wells Highlight

Rachael Buchanan details the long and arduous journey to separate twins Safa and Marwa Bibi, who finally went back home to Pakistan this week.

The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene
By sanderskristin Feature

A ā€˜90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Smiley, Reid Forgrave, Susan Casey, Michael Rosenberg, and Lucy Jones.

Summer Mother
By Michael Gonzales Feature

Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.

Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent
By Jeanna Kadlec Feature

Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Mike Giglio, Omar Mouallem, Katherine Laidlaw, Dave Daley, and Tim Greiving.

Find Yourself
By Elizabeth Isadora Gold Feature

From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.

Who Gets a Vaccine?
By Carolyn Wells Highlight

We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?

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Popular Posts

Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent
By Jeanna Kadlec Feature

Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.

Out There: On Not Finishing
By Devin Feature

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

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.

An Atlas of the Cosmos
By Shannon Stirone Feature

We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.

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

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Smiley, Reid Forgrave, Susan Casey, Michael Rosenberg, and Lucy Jones.

How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
By Irina Dumitrescu Feature

A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.

Books

The Powerful Decide
By Longreads Feature

What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.

‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”

The Grieving Landscape
By Longreads Feature

Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.

This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack.
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

To read my ā€œThis Week in Booksā€ newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.

Palliative Brownies
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“I grew up in the grip of the epidemic, maturing as people I adored as surrogate aunties and uncles fell ill and vanished from our lives.”

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Current Events

Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court
By Gabriel Thompson Feature

Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.

How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
By Irina Dumitrescu Feature

A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.

Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral
By Yxta Maya Murray Feature

In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.

ā€œDo You Get Shit for Your Name?ā€
By Osama Shehzad Feature

When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.

The Endgame of the Olympics
By Dvora Meyers Feature

What if the Olympic Games never come back?

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Essays & Criticism

The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene
By sanderskristin Feature

A ā€˜90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.

Summer Mother
By Michael Gonzales Feature

Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.

Find Yourself
By Elizabeth Isadora Gold Feature

From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.

Out There: On Not Finishing
By Devin Feature

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

Death as a Work of Art
By Krista Stevens Highlight

“He tried to explain that the tomb was his final creative act, one that he would make with love, as he had made ceramics daily for the past forty-four years.”

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