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Mira Ptacin: Is Baby a Luxury?

When a chemical stick revealed that our little family was about to change, we were overjoyed. But not insured. Image from Flickr via Pensiero By Mira Ptacin This past year, I found myself in a…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3118 words)

Top 5 Longreads of the Week

4. The Luckiest Village in the World Michael Paterniti | GQ | May 6, 2013 | 26 minutes (6,701 words) What happened when the village of Sodeto won the largest lottery in the history of Spain:"Ana, the…

The Longest Hunger Strike

American courts recognize rights to refuse life-saving treatment. So why won’t the State of Connecticut let William Coleman die?Image courtesy of Gregor FischerThey came for him on October 23,…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5407 words)

Top 5 Longreads of the Week

3. The Right to Die is the Right to Live Lisa Carver | Vice | December 17, 2012 | 14 minutes (3,713 words) A mother decides to give her son Wolf, a talented artist who suffers from a range of…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (264 words)
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How Things Fell Apart

In an excerpt from his long-awaited memoir, the inventor of the post-colonial African novel in English discusses his origins as a writer and the seeds of revolt against the British Empire.Image…
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8803 words)

from The Story of My Assasins

Naag. Cobra. The very sound of its name stilled the heart and fired the mind.Image courtesy Fred R via FlickrKaaliya was a dodger and a scrapper, to the task born. Like the snakes his forefathers had…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5569 words)

People Don’t Get Depressed in Nigeria

Exclusive essay from the print issue of 120 Granta: Medicine. It is a cold January morning and I am sitting in a cafe on a busy London street. Looking out of the window, I watch people bustle…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3656 words)

The Anointing

Anointings were eleventh-hour efforts—what you asked for after you’d asked for everything else.Image from Flickr via neilkrugSeven months into her husband’s depression, Diane…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3693 words)

Making Faces

Two potters keep an unusual art alive in South Carolina. At Travelers Rest, South Carolina, I stood in a cluttered pottery studio at 10:30 p.m., staring at the grotesquerie on the shelves and…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2397 words)
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