The Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Reading List on Pop Concerts
It’s been a huge year for live music, so let’s take a tour.
Buon Appetito: A Reading List on Italian Food
Six stories to challenge your assumptions about one of the world’s most iconic cuisines.
The Specters on Screen, The Monsters Among Us: An October Longreads Collection
Dive into stories of monsters and ghosts, both literal and metaphorical.
Imperial Eras: A Taylor Swift Studies Reading List
How Taylor Swift reflects every possible version of ourselves.
Librarians on the Front Lines: A Reading List for Library Lovers and Realists
Increasingly, being a librarian is less and less about books and more and more about community survival.
The Parent Dilemma: Should I Have a Child?
Clare Egan doesn’t know if she wants kids. Will this reading list help?
Bomb the Multiplex: A ‘Barbenheimer’ Reading List
With people turning a shared release date into a meme-fueled double feature, we rounded up our favorite reads about 2023’s oddest duo.
Read ’Em and Weep: A Reading List for Criers
Grab your handkerchief and get ready for the waterworks.
Watch the Skies: A UFO Believers Reading List
Amid a new flurry of media coverage, we revisit some of our favorite stories about ufologists and close encounters.
Working on the Edge: A Reading List About Extreme Jobs
A livelihood is not a life—yet many risk the latter in order to create the former.
Relentless Toil: A Reading List About Filipino Laborers
The sacrifices of Filipino workers at home and abroad are enormous.
Outer Dark: A Cormac McCarthy Reading List
“Every man’s death is a standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us.”
Return to the Saddle Club: A Reading List on Horse Girls
Celebrating the girls with an equine obsession.
Not Serious People: A ‘Succession’ Reading List
Great writing begets great writing — and the commentary around the HBO smash hit is some of the best around.
Tragedy in the Making: A Reading List About Unnatural Disasters
Six readings that interrogate the choices and forces behind so-called “natural disasters.”
Dead Moms Club: A Mother’s Day Reading List
“I recognize other dead mom kids almost instantly. They don’t pity — they laugh. They raise their hand for a high five. They respond with, ‘Mine too!’ and my whole body relaxes.”
There She Goes: A Reading List on Women Adventurers
The women you’ll find on top of the world.
Paging Dr. House: A Medical Mysteries Reading List
In the spirit of TV’s Holmesian healer, enjoy these diagnostic digressions.
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