The latest entry in the annals of coverage of the Netflix reality show Love Is Blind goes behind the scenes for the filming of season seven. Creator Chris Coelen drops a new group of singles into his “experiment”—and wrestles with the lawsuits against the show: Love Is Blind’s production company, Kinetic Content, of which Coelen is the founder...

Karen Solie may be known for her poetry, but judging from this essay, her prose is no slouch either. As she details her trip to (and immersion in) the music scene of Austin, Texas, she pulls together disparate strands, braiding loss and joy and creativity into a single stirring chord. All the more affecting for its spareness. To cover a song...

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...