#longReads

2025-06-13

"It’s not that Max is a slow learner: it’s that he has so much more to learn. Where other kids seek a driving licence, he is tasked with the invention of the internal combustion engine." —Archie Bland for The Guardian

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

#parents #disability #disabled #fatherhood #writing #nonfiction #longreads

2025-06-12

"It turns out almost everybody has an opinion on Wilson’s supposed genius, or on Pet Sounds as evidence of it, or both."

Revisit this #longreads reading list on #BrianWilson, by Cecilia Gigliotti: longreads.com/2022/03/03/let-g

#Longreads #Music #PetSounds #BeachBoys

2025-06-12

"Close to half of California’s 58 counties do not employ any full-time public defense investigators."

Anat Rubin for CalMatters: calmatters.org/investigation/2

#Longreads #TrueCrime #California #PublicDefense #Investigation #Justice #Injustice #Legal #Law #SiskiyouCounty

2025-06-12

"The harsh reality of boom-and-bust gold mining becomes clear: The brief boom benefited only a fortunate few. The bust was for everyone else."

NEW on Longreads: An excerpt from Josh Jackson's new book, THE ENDURING WILD, out on June 24 from Heyday Books:

longreads.com/2025/06/12/blm-l

#Longreads #Books #California #Gold #GoldMining #BLM #Wilderness #Outdoors

2025-06-11

"Today’s L.A., a few say, feels more like a Rust Belt crater than the glamorous capital of the world’s entertainment."

Lane Brown for Vulture: vulture.com/article/hollywood-

#Longreads #Hollywood #LosAngeles #California #Film #Television #Entertainment

HïMY SYeD🟩:mstdn:HiMYSYeD@mstdn.ca
2025-06-11

One of those rare stories one stumbles upon that leaves you feeling better,

much better for having read it all the way through to the end...

arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/

| #Longreads #Space

2025-06-10

"They can’t answer the question. They don’t have original thoughts. They just parrot back what they’ve heard in TikToks. They try to show me 'information' ChatGPT gave them."

Jason Koebler for 404 Media: 404media.co/teachers-are-not-o

#Longreads #Education #AI #ChatGPT #Teachers #Teaching #Technology

2025-06-10

"They were all men and they stuck out because they displayed an exceeding level of stillness and homogeneity in a room with a flow of people from all over the world, who are always in motion, and who mostly looked different from one another."

Liz Veazey for n+1: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

#Longreads #Immigration #Asylum #ICE #Justice

2025-06-10

“‘Are the pouches one size fits all?’ Giselle, a cheery woman in her forties from Yorkshire, England, asked. ‘No, there are different pouch profiles,’ Duenyas replied diplomatically.’”
Jennifer Wilson for The New Yorker #movies #tv #sex #longreads newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06

2025-06-08
Robert is a genuinely enjoyable writer and worth your time. This post was about YouTube and the intersection between podcasting and tubing... Among other things!

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250414/

#LongReads #YouTube #Blogging

@WeirdWriter
2025-06-06

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

* Wildfire: too close and personal (Alta Journal)
* Running from demons (The Economist)
* Experiments in microdosing (5280 Magazine)
* Reading is hard (Vox)
* "Jackass" as a love language (Bright Wall/Dark Room)

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

longreads.com/2025/06/06/the-t

#Longreads #WeeklyTop5 #EditorsPicks #Curation

2025-06-06

"In its simplest form, a whale’s death becomes a source of life for years beyond its time. It is a transformation that turns death into life on an almost incomprehensible scale."

Omnia Saed for Atmos Magazine: atmos.earth/after-the-fall/

#Longreads #Essay #Whales #Sea #Ocean #Death #Ecosystem #MarineLine #Afrofuturism

2025-06-05

So, with all this talk about deporting that idiot from Pretoria (who attained US citizenship), I think now would be an excellent time for y'all to read this article about another US citizen who had his citizenship stripped by the US State Department:

Herman Marks, the Butcher of Havana.

magazine.atavist.com/the-butch

#LongReads #Cuba #CivilRights

2025-06-05

"Deep literacy encourages abstract thought. But abstractions can be morally beneficent or abominable, illuminating or obfuscatory." —Eric Levitz for Vox

vox.com/politics/414049/readin

#longreads #literacy #reading #writing #nonfiction

2025-06-04

"Kelvin Kiptum’s final run began at an abandoned fluorspar mine on the floor of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley."

Jonathan W. Rosen for 1843 Magazine (The Economist) #longreads #running #Sports economist.com/1843/2025/05/30/

2025-06-04

"Waldrip began poking around, tugging on threads that had been untouched for years and unearthing new ones. Over a series of months, an alternate theory of what happened to Keith King began to form."

Stephen Lemons‬ for Phoenix New Times: phoenixnewtimes.com/news/septi

#Longreads #TrueCrime #ColdCase #Disappearance #Mystery #Seligman #Arizona

2025-06-03

"Colorado’s psychedelic movement has not only been supported by clinicians and policymakers, but it’s also increasingly embraced by private capital financiers, wellness gurus, wine moms, and tech bros."

Robert Sanchez for 5280 Magazine:
5280.com/i-tried-magic-mushroo

#Longreads #Colorado #Denver #Drugs #Mushrooms #Psilocybin #Therapy

2025-06-03

"Traveling the entire length was the equivalent of climbing and descending more than eighteen Mount Everests over a distance equivalent to nearly fifty marathons."

Read an excerpt from Cassidy Randall's thrilling new Atavist story, THE LONGEST JOURNEY: longreads.com/2025/06/03/coast

#Longreads #Nonfiction #Skiing #Mountaineering #Mountains #BritishColumbia #Adventure #MentalHealth #Women #Sports

2025-05-30

"I cherished the whole sequin-heavy, three-hour, glittery, multicultural spectacle that was our continent’s pop music Olympics." #longreads @vesnajaksic @ElectricLit

electricliterature.com/eurovis

#longreads #nonfiction #eurovision #essays #europe #immigration

2025-05-30

"As of his sixth birthday next month, he will have 2,462 seconds, his entire life compressed as I wanted to remember it, into approximately 41 minutes."

Kristin Winet for Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature: panoramajournal.org/issues/iss

#Longreads #Essay #Memory #Video #Photography #DigitalLife #Forgetting #Parenting

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