The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
As January draws to a close, our favorite stories this week included a stirring critical essay, a paean to the world’s greatest boxed meal, a rethinking of psychedelics’ impact on the planet, a...
View ArticleHighway Star
In this terrific n+1 profile by Meg Bernhard, you’ll meet Jess, age 39, among a few other fascinating members of REAL Women in Trucking, an advocacy group for women truckers. Jess became a long-haul...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Get the Longreads Top 5 Email Kickstart your weekend by getting the week’s best reads, hand-picked and introduced by Longreads editors, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. This edition...
View ArticleI’m F***ing Agitated, Are You Going to Murder Me?
After the killing of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car last week, an outcry erupted across the city. These were protests against the injustice of Neely’s death, yes, but also against the...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Get the Longreads Top 5 Email Kickstart your weekend by getting the week’s best reads, hand-picked and introduced by Longreads editors, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. A year in the life...
View ArticleMother Sauce
For n+1, Marian Bull highlights Rebecca May Johnson’s book Small Fires and hails the author for considering recipes as translation and cooking as performance. This is a satisfying read that will set...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Sifting through the aftermath of a disastrous blaze. The romance that launched a thousand Supreme Court...
View ArticleNo Human Being Can Exist
As Israel rains hellfire on Gaza, the mainstream media have called on author Saree Makdisi and other Palestinian intellectuals for comment. Makdisi asks, “How can a person make up for seven decades of...
View ArticleNot One Tree
An insider account of the battle to stop the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, better known as “Cop City,” in a Georgia forest: On a Tuesday in early September, the city...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. This week’s edition features stories on progressive activism, dwindling salmon, how Chicago protects birds...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....