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"Look in any direction along the political spectrum and sperm are in danger, or endangering someone else." —Rosecrans Baldwin for GQ

longreads.com/2025/03/14/are-m…

#longreads #writing #nonfiction #sperm #IVF


"During that last tortuous summer at West Chapple, he found her one day standing in the rain in just a light summer dress repeating the words, 'We should die here. We were born on the farm and we should die here.'"

longreads.com/2025/03/06/madne…

#longreads #writing #murder #truecrime #Devon #countryside #mystery


"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"

Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-n…

#Longreads #Nuns #DeathRow #Faith #Redemption #CapitalPunishment #Jail #Prison #Women #Incarceration #Texas


When the world shifts, so must our words.

In an excerpt of her new book MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores the sea of language, nature, intelligence, and the power of naming the ineffable.

(Publisher: Northwestern University Press)

longreads.com/2025/03/13/langu…

#Longreads #Books #Sea #Ocean #Whales #Nature #ClimateCrisis #Language #Linguistics #Words #Loss


"Each season brings its own chance of furthering that dream, rendering devastation, or usually, delivering a dose of both." —Lindsey Liles for Garden & Gun

longreads.com/2025/03/13/insid…

#longreads #writing #nonfiction #reading


"Call it vigilante justice or guerrilla tactics, but there’s a sense of stalwart duty as the lab attempts to dismantle generative AI."

Kelley Engelbrecht for Chicago Magazine: longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-g…

#Longreads #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Art #Artists #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Theft #MachineLearning


"Poring over social media isn’t so different than idly wondering what happened to young people in a well-loved yearbook."

Jordan P. Hickey for D Magazine: longreads.com/2025/03/12/plano…

#Longreads #Connection #Strangers #Nostalgia #Plano #Texas


"How Sheridan creates these worlds complements the theme of one brave man — occasionally, a woman — taking on the malignant forces hell-bent on destroying this country." —Stephen Rodrick for Rolling Stone

longreads.com/2025/03/11/its-t…

#longreads #writing #reading #yellowstone #taylorsheridan #nonfiction


"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo."

John Last for The Long Now Foundation: longreads.com/2025/03/11/is-go…

#Longreads #Essay #Drugs #Psychedelics #Mushrooms #Spirituality #Religion #Psilocybin


"One hour later, on the second stretch and fold, I felt the fairy dust of fermentation, a continuous cycle of death and resurrection; out of crumble and shreds came elasticity. The dough was in dialogue with me, teeming with vivacity."

longreads.com/2025/03/07/life-…

#longreads #writing #reading #grief #mourning


"I will never know if my grandfather and his father realized the magnitude of their complicity in Italy’s colonial dreams."

Stefania D’Ignoti for New Lines Magazine: longreads.com/2025/03/07/my-gr…

#Longreads #Essay #Italy #Libya #Colonialism #History #Genocide #Family #Fascism


Our #Longreads Top 5:

- Harm and hope in West Virginia (The Delacorte Review)

- The fast-food fight Ali lost (Defector)

- The day doubt took over (Aeon)

- When fear slithers in (The Bitter Southerner)

- Kitzbühel’s wild side (Outside)

longreads.com/2025/03/07/the-t…

#Essay #Reading #Nonfiction #Writing #Journalism #Storytelling


"That night, after wading through a street party unlike anything I’d seen, I talked my way into the Londoner through a side door. The scene looked like something from the 1978 comedy Animal House." —Devon 0"Neil for Outside

longreads.com/2025/03/06/a-mid…

#longreads #writing #skiing #drinking #reading


"Nothing had really happened, but my anxiety aroused in me wild imaginings, and neither my knowledge nor my clinical experience could dispel them."

Ronald W. Dworkin for Aeon Magazine: longreads.com/2025/03/05/when-…

#Longreads #Intuition #Medicine #Psychology #Cognition #Intelligence #Work


"Five decades later, I remain terrified of walking across a moonlit lawn or even strolling along the sidewalk after dusk. Every fallen twig looks like a baby rattler."

Rebecca Burns for The Bitter Southerner: longreads.com/2025/03/05/here-…

#Longreads #Snakes #Serpents #Fear #Phobia #Essay #Anxiety #Georgia #India


There's been lots of stories about H5N1, but I've yet to see a deep dive into where it came from—which is also the story of how industrial poultry production methods turn harmless influenzas into monsters.

My latest, for Nautilus:

nautil.us/the-unnatural-histor…

#h5n1 #science #food #longreads


"It’s wooed executives from Google and Amazon. And last year, Walmart’s shares rose by an astonishing 72%, outpacing those of Costco, Kroger and Target."

Jaewon Kang and Devin Leonard for Bloomberg Businessweek: longreads.com/2025/03/05/walma…

#Longreads #Walmart #Business #Shopping #ECommerce #Bentonville #Arkansas


#AmazingRace starts its 37th trip around the world tomorrow on #CBS. To celebrate—and maybe avoid other news tonight!—read (or revisit) my oral history of the first season, a super-deep dive into how it was created. #longreads realityblurred.com/realitytv/2…


"Pennell left a trove of letters and diaries behind, but they sat largely unconsulted for a century. The romance hidden inside them was a gift waiting for the right moment to be discovered."

An excerpt from the new Atavist Magazine issue by Allegra Rosenberg:
longreads.com/2025/03/04/antar…

#Longreads #Antarctica #SouthPole #Love #Romance #History


"In a city that never sleeps, Gorton wasn’t allowed to sleep, either. Even in the richest and most glamorous neighborhoods of Manhattan, the font would be there, doing the devil’s work without complaining. Gorton made Gotham feel bougie; American Typewriter touristy."

@mwichary on #typography: longreads.com/2025/03/04/the-h…

#Longreads #Essay #Design #Font #History #NYC #Photography


"Hunting is an essential part of the traditional San lifestyle dating back thousands of years. Now, it is still a means for survival, just in a more convoluted way."

Anthony J. Wallace for Foreign Policy: longreads.com/2025/03/03/shoot…

#Longreads #Wildlife #Conservation #Animals #Elephants #Botswana #Africa


I'm re-building my "read it later" collection, and I'd love to hear some of the sources you find yourself constantly returning to and/or engaging with.

Any #longreads? #shortreads? #blogs?
What are your favourite #RSS feeds my friends!


"It seemed inevitable that he would soon ascend to the highest plane attainable for a goose — or a person, for that matter — in postindustrial America: He was on the cusp of becoming a brand."

longreads.com/2025/02/28/who-k…

#Longreads #Murder #Mystery #Goose #Animals


Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Propagate language, preserve culture (Noēma)
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost (Salvation South)
* A gutsy take on indigestion (VQR)
* All the feels for the forums (The Fence)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

longreads.com/2025/02/28/the-t…

#Longreads #WeeklyTop5 #EditorsPicks #Curation


"Perhaps the wry twist in Twain’s output came from a similar torque in his guts. A friend once called my prose voice 'acidic.' With an iron stomach, might I read less bitter?"

Will Boast for Virginia Quarterly Review: longreads.com/2025/02/27/from-…

#Longreads #Essay #Eating #Indigestion #Writers #Writing


"Change came like a tsunami—which, contrary to what many people think, does not always announce itself with a mighty roar, but seeps in under the door when you aren’t looking."

Tracy Thompson for Salvation South: longreads.com/2025/02/27/solas…

#Longreads #Essay #Change #South #Georgia #Atlanta #Nostalgia #Place #Memory #Loss #Grief #Environment


"It’s a strange corner of the internet that I inhabited for roughly four years as a teenager, and it is home to many formative memories." —Gary Grimes for The Fence

longreads.com/2025/02/26/day-1…

#longreads #writing #nonfiction #reading


"Students called and texted her with their grief, their panic attacks, their drug use, their suicidal thoughts. What their own parents could not fully understand — the worst moment of their lives — Ms. Schamis could."

Emily Baumgaertner Nunn for The New York Times: longreads.com/2025/02/26/the-t…

#Longreads #Journalism #SchoolShooting #Teachers #Trauma #Students #Teens #Schools #GunViolence


"The next question was how much soybean paste to flush. In other words, how much does a person usually poop?"

Anna Gibbs for Slate: longreads.com/2025/02/25/flush…

#Longreads #Poop #Toilets #Design #Waste #Sanitation #Research


"During the discovery process, another employee came forward to share a document revealing what was in the green 'frit' Yvette handled each day at work: the biggest ingredient was lead."

Justine Calma for The Verge: longreads.com/2025/02/25/the-w…

#Longreads #Manufacturing #SiliconValley #Technology #Miscarriage #Workers #Women #BirthDefects #WomensHealth


Für alle, die gerne intensiver in Themen einsteigen: Im Fokus „Deep Dive“ auf unserer Website findest du viele unserer #Longreads aus dem #Archiv – von detaillierten #Analysen bis hin zu mitreißenden #Reportagen. Hier folgt eine Auswahl: riffreporter.de/de


In this week’s Top 5:

—Chilling Chilean forensic anthropology
—An empathetic park ranger
—Teaching migration to unruly birds
—Fear in America’s schools
—The Victorian vendors of cat meat

longreads.com/2025/02/21/the-t…

#longreads #Top5 #writing #nonfiction


"I won’t hide that I’m here as a journalist, but I won’t shout about it either. I won’t name anyone or share identifying details without permission. Meanwhile anything that I do, or that happens to me: fair game. " —Kassondra Cloos for Outside

longreads.com/2025/02/20/this-…

#longreads #skiing #singles #dating #nonfiction #writing


Of the group of would-be teachers who watched the news from Columbine that day in April 1999, I am the only one still teaching.”

Dana Salvador for The Sun: longreads.com/2025/02/20/after…

#Longreads #Essay #Teachers #Educators #Schools #Guns #GunViolence #SchoolShootings


"Of Chile’s 1,469 officially-recognized cases of forced disappearance, only 306 victims have ever been found."

Fletcher Reveley 📝 and Kitra Cahana 📷 for Undark: longreads.com/2025/02/20/grave…

#Longreads #Chile #Forensics #ForensicScience #Disappeared


"As reporters, we have covered this powerful dynasty for two decades and have never been afforded a more revealing window into it, or a more intimate portrait of Rupert."

Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg for The New York Times Magazine: longreads.com/2025/02/19/youve…

#Longreads #RupertMurdoch #Succession #Empire #Family #Rich


"Now, Latin American drug lords are using the same currents and trade winds that islanders have relied on for centuries to connect and expand their colossal, criminal empires."

Sean Williams and Kevin Knodell for New Lines Magazine: longreads.com/2025/02/19/track…

#Longreads #Drugs #Meth #Cocaine #DrugTrade #NewZealand #Australia #Oceania #Cartels #OrganizedCrime #PacificOcean


This Week's Top 5:

• Nature’s timekeepers, disrupted (David Farrier, Emergence Magazine)

• A fatal fairy-tale marriage (Luc Rinaldi, Toronto Life)

• Gen Z’s new normal (Claire Gagné, Maclean's)

• First moments, fleeting memories (Jonathan Weiner, The American Scholar)

• When Knocked Up becomes This Is 40 (Dave Holmes, Esquire)

longreads.com/2025/02/14/the-t…

#Longreads #Reading #Writing #Essay #Journalism


“Give me the complicated, the missed connections, the big gestures, the bittersweet endings. Give me the struggle, because it’s the struggle that makes it love.”

A #longreads collection on many, many different kinds of love: longreads.com/2025/02/13/valen…

#Longreads #Love #Relationships #Sex #Breakup #ValentinesDay