For IVF patients, especially women in their 40s, every day counts. As Zoya Teirstein and Jessica Kutz report in this story, more than half of fertility clinics in 13 states—including Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware—are at risk of hurricane damage. In this collaboration between Grist, Vox, and The 19th, Teirstein and Kutz follow Kirsti...

If you’re on social media, you couldn’t have missed the flurry of #80sdancechallenge posts shared across platforms, in which people posted videos of their parents showing off their ’80s dance moves while grooving to Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy.” In this fun read, Jessica Winter discusses great examples over the years of adult children using their...

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen | Longreads | June 11, 2024 | (5,230 words) Dad,  With our distance, what I miss most is our car rides. You listen to Little Saigon Radio on AM and I prefer to bypass radio frequency with my Spotify playlists....

This is the story of Debra Stevens, who found a second family amongst the elephants of Botswana. Complete with beautiful video clips, this piece immerses you into life at Elephant Havens, then threads back to a different journey of discovery back in Stevens’ home of Dallas, Texas. The mood turns sober when the young elephant stumbles out of...

Emma Copley Eisenberg calls out the publishing industry for weight prejudice in this fascinating essay. Reading the piece makes you will realize how few times you have experienced an overweight main character while reading fiction. And that will make you think. Thinness is routinely associated with morality and fatness with immorality. Characters...

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. In the Top 5: How sickle cell patients are pressured into sterilization How opioid restrictions harm the terminally ill The enshittification of bowling The sudden ubiquity of steroids Why sperm is a hot commodity...