Ben Huberman
Longreads
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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When Readers Support Longreads, We Can Nurture Strong Relationships with Writers
There's a direct link between our readers' commitment to Longreads and our ability to commit your favorite writers. → Read More
When Arnold Schwarzenegger Was the Newest Member of the Gym
From his earliest days in California, Arnold was a polarizing, impossible-to-ignore figure. → Read More
Breast Implants, Beyond Real and Fake
Nell Boeschenstein reflects on the culturally fraught discourse around post-mastectomy reconstruction. → Read More
Long Live the Oddly Charming Poetry of the Mail-Order Catalog
Hammacher Schlemmer, which publishes America’s longest-running catalog, still takes its product descriptions seriously. → Read More
Queer Eye Is an Upbeat Documentary of a Failing Social Order
How a hard-not-to-love show glosses over the powers that produced its makeover subjects. → Read More
“99 Luftballons” and the Grim Fairy Tales of ’80s West Germany
On storytelling in the shadow of Chernobyl, U.S. military planes, and not-so-distant German history. → Read More
Walking the Line in the Bekaa Valley
A traveling crew of slackliners is trying to bring a moment of balance to young Syrian refugees in Lebanon. → Read More
The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice
Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it -- in Trinidad. → Read More
The Placeless and the Privileged
On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another "lifestyle choice." → Read More
Translation is Messy, Which is Why Google Translate Will Never Be Very Good at It
The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much. → Read More
Why Do Millennials Love Horoscopes? (Hint: It’s Not Only Because They’re Free)
A new audience finds comfort and meme-ready material in an old pseudoscience. → Read More
An Ode to Sichuan’s Singular Sensation
The king of peppercorns is literally electric. → Read More
The Digital Age Won’t Kill Paper
Just like handwriting survived long after the introduction of print, paper is still very much part of our internet-era economy. → Read More
The Volcanologist’s Dilemma
In Naples, scientists find themselves grappling with unpredictable volcanoes and skeptical residents. → Read More
Server, Busser, Manager, Spy: Inside the High-Stakes World of Restaurant Oppo Research
When a famous critic enters a restaurant, they become the most scrutinized item on the menu. → Read More
The Sandwich Whisperer of Victoria Street
The art of sandwich-making requires "tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair." → Read More
Will Podcasts and Video Journalism Make Our Syntax Less Rich?
The days of the long, sinuous, multi-clause sentence might be numbered. → Read More
Unreal Estate: A Reading List on Our Shifting Vision of “Home”
In an age of economic and political instability, what do the spaces we dwell in say about us? → Read More
Misogyny, Translated
The first woman translator of Homer's 'Odyssey' subtly unpacks the politics of the poem -- and of the male translators that preceded her. → Read More
An Oregon Wolf, Profiled
A fateful encounter between Oregon's mightiest wolf and the scientist who would track him for the next six years. → Read More