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On the death of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers student, and the charges against his roommate, Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on him. Clementi took his own life shortly after the incident: An...
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A Minnesota school district enacts a policy designed to stop teachers from discussing or acknowledging homosexuality. Gay students report bullying, but administrators do nothing. The result is a...
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The Complicated Relationship Between a Reporter and a Source
“The reporter-source relationship is a complicated one that defies easy description. It borrows a little from the salesman-buyer relationship, the therapist-patient relationship, the police...
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'There are patterns in the language that are the language of suicide'
Back in the 1970s, as part of his own research, Shneidman asked a group of men at a union hall, “If you were going to commit suicide, what would you write?” The union hall experiment was, by...
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Everything to Live For
Jennifer Mendelsohn | Washingtonian | June 1998 | 36 minutes (8,995 words) Jennifer Mendelsohn is the “Modern Family” columnist for Baltimore Style magazine. A former People magazine special...
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‘It’s not too much of a stretch to say that this story fundamentally changed...
All reporters have pieces that stay with them, stories whose characters and components linger long after the last revisions have been rendered and the paper put to bed. For Jennifer Mendelsohn, Sean...
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The High-Stress Life of a First Responder
You don’t know what it’s like to be an emergency services provider until you’ve stood in the piss-soaked bedroom of a house and watched a team of medics try to revive an old, lonely guy though 15...
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Suicide in the Family
In the literary magazine Post Road, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about how her grandmother ─ a smart, talented woman born in repressive times ─ committed suicide for unclear reasons, and how...
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Letter to an Ex, on the Occasion of His Suicide
Masha Hamilton | Longreads | August 2016 | 24 minutes (5,851 words) It was morning, after another rough night. You’d barely slept on the floor in Bill’s cave of an apartment, where you’d spent the...
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The Family That Would Not Live
Colin Dickey | Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places | Viking | October 2016 | 10 minutes ( 4,181 words) Below is an excerpt from Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. In this...
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The Humanizing Properties of Depression: Daphne Merkin Talks to Gabby Bess
At Broadly, Gabby Bess — a writer who has depression — interviews life-long sufferer Daphne Merkin, and reviews Merkin’s new memoir, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression, in the process....
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On Bearing Witness: Saving Chickens, Saving Myself
At Catapult, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee reflects on seeing and “being seen” — the silent gift of bearing witness to one another and individual suffering as a way of offering comfort and hope. Last year, I...
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From a Hawk to a Dove
Ray Cocks | Longreads | May 2017 | 11 minutes (2,844 words) Our latest Exclusive is an essay by Vietnam veteran Ray Cocks, co-funded by Longreads Members and published in collaboration with TMI...
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Why Did a Young Woman Broadcast Her Death?
My uncle Howard killed himself in college. He was a grad student in Ann Arbor, engaged to be married, and, according to my family, well-liked. He suffered from depression worsened by tensions with his...
View ArticleUgly, Bitter, and True
Suzanne Rivecca | Zyzzyva | April 2018 | 84 minutes (16,714 words) The most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being. –Michel de Montaigne There’s a tiny park on Hyde Street in San...
View ArticleHow Simple Human Connection Can Help Save People from Suicide
In this deeply reported piece at the Huffington Post Highline, Jason Cherkis looks at how suicide rates in the United States are at an all-time high — leaving no gender or demographic unaffected —...
View ArticleWhat Falls to Earth
Susanna Space | Longreads | January 2019 | 13 minutes (3,200 words) On June 30, 1908, a star-like body with a fiery tail tore through the clear morning sky above the vast Siberian forest. As it neared...
View ArticleA Mountain and a Range of Memories
As Alison Osius climbs Colorado’s Mount Sopris and reflects on how weather, climate change, and fire has shaped the mountain, she remembers friends lost during their own mountain adventures. Read the...
View Article‘What if people found out?’ On the White Male Suicide Epidemic
At Rolling Stone, Stephen Rodrick reports on the “middle-aged white-male suicide epidemic” in America. He blames a lack of mental health facilities, easy access to guns, and jobs like truck driving...
View ArticleGreenland’s Deepening Ecological Grief
With glacial ice retreating and formerly reliable sea ice becoming more and more treacherous for winter hunting and social trips, the people of Greenland understand climate change first hand. As Dan...
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