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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
Are Men in a Spermpocalypse?
"One man journeys through the many movements—sci-fi startups, DIY donor clubs, group masturbation retreats—urgently attempting to address the 'crisis in sperm.'"Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
"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
Madness, Melancholy, or Murder: An Ancient English Farm’s 50-Year-Old Mystery
Andrew Chamings returns to his childhood farmland to investigate the mystifying deaths of the Luxton siblings. What really happened down that dark country lane?Andrew Chamings (Longreads)
"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
Quieseeds
What if the key to understanding ourselves lies in the spaces between things—between words, between waves, between worlds?Christina Rivera (Longreads)
"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
Inside the Fight to Save theWorld’s Most Endangered Wolf
"Once, the red wolf roamed every Southern state. Today, only seventeen remain in the wild on a swampy peninsula in Eastern North Carolina, a number on the rise thanks to the passionate team of biologists determined to help them thrive once more."Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
"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
The Great AI Art Heist
"A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
Plano Senior High Alum’s Instagram Quest to Find 1,122 Former Classmates
"An optometrist and Pokémon master Minh Nguyen has tracked down nearly 200 former classmates. It may have saved his life."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
It’s Taylor Sheridan’s World. We’re Just Watching It
"The Yellowstone auteur is printing money with his sprawling TV universe—a place where America is great again, work is glorified, and a lone, brave man saves the day."Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
"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
Is God a Mushroom?
"New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality—and with it, our vision of the cosmos."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
Life, Death, and Sourdough
"A bubbling starter brought back Joe, in more ways than one."Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
"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
My Grandpa, the Fascist?
"An old family album sent me on a journey through Italy’s dark past in Libya."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
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
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Adlai Coleman, Dan McQuade, Ronald W. Dworkin, Rebecca Burns, and Devon O’Neil.Longreads
"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
A Middle-Aged Dad Visits Downhill Skiing’s Rowdiest Party. What Could Go Wrong?
"Our writer endured boozy days, sleepless nights in a hostel, and edge-of-your-seat racing at Kitzbühel’s legendary Hahnenkamm."Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
"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
When I Lost My Intuition
"For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t."Brendan Fitzgerald (Longreads)
"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
Here Be Serpents
"A lifelong and morbid fear of snakes held me captive—until something much scarier raised its ugly head."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
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:
"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
Walmart Wants to Be Something for Everyone in a Divided America
"The world’s largest retailer has built an Apple-esque corporate campus in Bentonville, is selling Gucci online, and is playing nice with Trump. Will any of it work?"Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
Amazing Race behind the scenes: an oral history of CBS’s first race around the world
In this Amazing Race season 1 oral history, people involved with the first season—producers, cast, and crew—reveal the behind-the-scenes story of how a race…Andy Dehnart (reality blurred)
"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
The Romance History Forgot
Sir Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to the South Pole captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived.Longreads
"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
The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan
"This was what made me walk 100 miles. Over and over again, Gorton found ways to make itself interesting."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
Shooting an Elephant in Botswana
"Trophy hunting is uncomfortable for some in the West but a lifeline for many locals."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
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
Who Killed the Footless Goose?
"Thirty-three years ago, Andy was the most famous bird in America. Then he was brutally murdered."Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
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
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Julia Webster Ayuso, Abe Beame, Tracy Thompson, Will Boast, and Gary Grimes.Longreads
"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
Solastalgia
"Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?"Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House
"Our writer, a lonely tweenager in rural Ireland, took to his computer and found new galaxies of possibilities – on a Big Brother forum."Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
"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 Teacher in Room 1214
"When a gunman killed two of her students, Ivy Schamis was the only adult in the room. Her journey through guilt and healing sheds light on the impossible role of American teachers."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
Flushed Away
"The crappy lie Americans still believe about their toilets."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
The Women Who Made America’s Microchips and the Children Who Paid for It
"The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
RiffReporter | Autorïnnen-Magazin: Analysen und Hintergründe
Die Genossenschaft für freien Journalismus. Freie Journalistïnnen berichten direkt für Sie – über Wissenschaft, Kultur, Umwelt, Technik, Leben und die Welt.RiffReporter
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
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Fletcher Reveley, Susan Freinkel, Nick Paumgarten, Dana Salvador, and Kathryn Hughes.Longreads
"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
This is What Happens When You Unleash 500 Singles on an IRL Date
"I traveled to one in the Alps with a group of rowdy singles in search of love."Carolyn Wells (Longreads)
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
After All This
"When twenty first graders were slaughtered and the country responded without a national gun-buyback program, national red-flag laws, universal background checks, a national wait period, a gun registry, an assault-weapons ban . . .Brendan Fitzgerald (Longreads)
"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
Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’
"A brutal regime hid hundreds of people’s remains. Can new forensic science help find them—and regain public trust?"Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
"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
‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama
"More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire."Brendan Fitzgerald (Longreads)
"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
Tracking the Pacific Drug Highway
"How Latin American cartels are reshaping the narcotics trade across the world’s largest ocean."Cheri Lucas Rowlands (Longreads)
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
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Notable longform stories written by David Farrier, Luc Rinaldi, Claire Gagné, Jonathan Weiner, and Dave Holmes.Longreads
“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
Love, Lust, Loneliness: A Valentine’s Day Reading List
Essays, reading lists, and editors' picks on relationships, breakups, and many different kinds of love.Longreads