Featuring notable stories by Antonia Cundy, Adrian Walker, Evan Allen, Elizabeth Koh, Andrew Ryan, Kristin Nelson, Brendan McCarthy, Frederick Kaufman, Lygia Navarro, and Judith Hannah Weiss.
https://longreads.com/2024/03/22/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-508/
"Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives."
"The wonder world of quilt-making."
https://longreads.com/2024/02/27/the-black-women-of-gees-bend-work-hard-and-easy/
"How the decisions that led to the founding of Israel left the region in a state of eternal conflict."
"Some codpieces had cute little bows on them."
"Throughout its botanical, cultural, and social history, it has been a vehicle for our ideas about community, survival, and what we owe the future."
https://longreads.com/2024/01/24/tell-me-why-the-watermelon-grows/
"What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration."
"With 'The Zone of Interest,' Jonathan Glazer is just the latest director to confront the problem."
https://longreads.com/2024/01/03/how-do-you-make-a-movie-about-the-holocaust/
"Asian Americans have claimed the phrase 'not too sweet' as a defiant shorthand and a cheeky rallying cry. But is that maxim really true?"
https://longreads.com/2023/12/08/the-bitter-taste-of-not-too-sweet/
"For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet.... By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?"