The Longform Guide to Open Letters
Classics from Martin Luther King, Jr., Lindy West, James Baldwin and more.
Letter From Birmingham Jail
On the moral responsibility to break unjust laws.
Martin Luther King Jr. Liberation May 1963 55min
An Open Letter to Wikipedia
An author pleas to amend his entry.
Philip Roth New Yorker Sep 2012 10min
Apologia to My Second Child
On the wonders of being an only child.
John Hodgman Psychology Today Jan 2007 10min
An Open Letter to White Male Comedians
On rape jokes.
Lindy West Jezebel May 2013 10min
An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
Davis was imprisoned on charges of first degree murder.
Governor Perry, Have Mercy on This Man
Max Soffar, who has liver cancer, has been on death row since 1981. He’s almost certainly innocent.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Oct 2014 20min
J'accuse
On the imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus.
Émile Zola L'Aurore Jan 1898 20min
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