Longreads

Is it possible to decolonize and police a thing as subconscious and primal as desire?

Over the past few decades, loneliness has reached almost epidemic levels, with men uniquely suffering its effects. How and why has isolation become such a threat?

What does it take to evolve from human being to human brand? If you're enrolled in the right free online introductory-level course, about five weeks.

After I was run over by a car, getting mad helped me find my way back to myself.

Like so many of her heroines, the director seduces to control.

Why did I go to work for the TSA? To try to connect with my father? To soothe various concerns as a new father myself? Was I researching a book? Having a midlife crisis? All of the above?

The fact that I’ve always had an exact replica of my father, with a startlingly similar voice, mannerisms and, well, face, never really struck me as exceptional until he passed away.

My father's stories come from a career behind the bar of New York's oldest pub, among the alcoholics and loners and deviants who became his people and helped him find his voice as a writer.

The new podcast from This American Life has been lauded for telling an empathetic, accurate story about the South. But S-Town is very much a story, and mere accuracy doesn't make it journalism.