#longreads

"It has sparked an ongoing hunt among the FBI, banking institutions, a true-crime podcaster, and television producers to see who can unravel McDonnell’s tangled history." Cheyenne Roundtree for Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/true-crime-fake-heiress-fbi-most-wanted-1235589737/ #investigation #truecrime #mostwanted #tv #podcasting #longreads

"The public commons is a place people stop at on their way somewhere else. Everyone eats the same value meal because there’s nothing else to eat." An excerpt from Gabe Bullard’s new book, AGAINST CONVENIENCE: https://longreads.com/2026/09/15/convenience-friction-eating-alone/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Books #Reading #Technology #Culture

“Modern food delivery promises to make any food into something you can eat at home. But not every dish, and not every restaurant, is built for this.” An excerpt from Gabe Bullard’s new book, AGAINST CONVENIENCE, out now from Hanover Square Press: https://longreads.com/2026/09/15/convenience-friction-eating-alone/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Reading #Books #Technology #Apps #Convenience #Food

Naomi Klein's new #book "End Times Fascism. And The Fight For The Living World" is out, here's an adapted #essay giving #hope and inspirations for resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay A "post-capitalist and pro- (all of) life fight. Deeply democratic, socialist, feminist, multiracial, multispecies, internationalist, generous, courageous and animate. Embodied and sensory, proudly earthbound." #resistance #future #longreads #TESCREAL #DemocracyMatters #democracy #bookstodon #solarpunk

"In my youth, I spent an afternoon wondering if I would have been able to imagine the fluorescent yellow of highlighter markers if I’d never seen it." Rivka Galchen for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/what-would-it-mean-to-see-a-new-color?src=longreads #color #vision #science #experiment #reporting #longreads #perception

"I already know I will never have, that I shouldn’t have, and that I will desperately crave: the power to control the world around my daughter." —Travis M. Andrews for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/01/20/57-movies-new-dad-watched/?src=longreads #fatherhood #parents #newborn #films #movies #longreads #writing

"Lying in the bed of that bare hotel room, he remained entirely focused on the anxiety and excitement of his first real job interview, scheduled for the next day. He still suspected nothing." —Andy Greenberg for Wired https://www.wired.com/story/he-leaked-the-secrets-southeast-asian-scam-compound-then-had-to-get-out-alive/?src=longreads #scams #investigation #journalism #longreads