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No Más Fantasía

What happens when you’re sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, then released 19 years later and sent to a place that’s supposed to feel like home?

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Longreads Best of 2017: Arts & Culture Writing

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture writing.

This is How a Woman is Erased From Her Job

After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.

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An Elegy for Bette Howland, a Writer Who Was Nearly Forgotten

On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.

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The Secret History of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco
Zach Dorfman  / Foreign Policy
Estonia, The Digital Republic
Nathan Heller  / The New Yorker
A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Cold
Miranda Weiss  / LitHub
In Praise of Cowardice
Emily Meg Weinstein  / Longreads
Mimi O’Donnell Reflects on the Loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Devastation of Addiction
Mimi O’Donnell , Adam Green  / Vogue
American Pimps
Shawn Hamilton  / The Baffler
A Movement Against the Melting Pot
Tyler J. Kelley  / Pacific Standard
Generation Screwed
Michael Hobbes  / HuffPost Highline
Portugal’s Radical Drugs Policy Is Working. Why Hasn’t the World Copied It?
Susana Ferreira  / The Guardian
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
Melissa Chadburn  / Longreads
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Mimi Loves Phil: Life After Death by Overdose

“How do I tell my kids that their dad just died? What are the words?”

Where It’s Always Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Marissa Weiss explores life in Alaska: The cold, the dark, the ice, the 3,000 miles between her and her parents in Maryland.

The Downwardly Mobile Generation

How job insecurity, student debt, health care, zoning and the housing market have compounded over decades to create a life few millennials can afford.

‘Cat Person’ and the Young Person

Many of us can viscerally remember what it was like to be young and overwhelmed by the power of our youth.

The NFL Has Pimped Its Players for Too Long

The disturbing parallels between professional football and the business of pimping

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Longreads Best of 2017: Profile Writing

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in profile writing.

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In Praise of Cowardice

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.

Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne and Nina Martin, Michael Hobbes, Rebecca Traister, Naima Coster, and Kristen Roupenian.

Server, Busser, Manager, Spy: Inside the High-Stakes World of Restaurant Oppo Research

When a famous critic enters a restaurant, they become the most scrutinized item on the menu.

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This is How a Woman is Erased From Her Job

After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.

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The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy

Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.

Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks

Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.

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The Consent of the (Un)governed

“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.

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How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore

Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard?

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The Unforgiving Minute

Men, get ready to be uncomfortable for a while. While forgiveness may come one day, it won’t be soon.

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Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now

Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.

Teju Cole Delights in Sentence Fragments

“For me it’s about recognizing that great art comes in all kinds of forms.”

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The True Story of Refugees in an American High School

The politics of immigration ignores the reality: a classroom of young people adjusting to life in the United States, and a teacher driven to help.

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An Urban Planner Against the Developer Presidency

An urban planner examines the worldview of high-stakes commercial real estate developers, with a special focus on our new developer-in-chief.

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The RNC, Revisited

Last year, when Jared Yates Sexton went to Cleveland, the ugliness he saw there was a harbinger of much to come.

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Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.

We’re All Alabama Now

Alabama, it turns out, isn’t an American outlier after all.

Suburbanizing Survivalism

Inside the booming business of survival food.

Climate Change and Social Disorder in Central Africa

As climate change dries Central Africa’s massive Lake Chad, extremists and militant governments distrupt the lives of the tribes who once made their life here.

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The Consent of the (Un)governed

“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.

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Where It’s Always Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Marissa Weiss explores life in Alaska: The cold, the dark, the ice, the 3,000 miles between her and her parents in Maryland.

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In Praise of Cowardice

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.

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The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy

Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.

The Fabric of History

Kirsten Tranter is cleaning out her closet. But how does the Marie Kondo method work for a “depressive personality…for whom joy is often an elusive feeling”?

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Finding My Identity By the Light of My Mother’s Menorah

The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.

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