Could You Survive on $2 a Day?

wwarby/FlickrThis story was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.Two years ago, Harvard University professor Kathryn Edin was in Baltimore interviewing public housing…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1800 words)

Appreciating Finds at a Flea Market

Discover how a flea market unfolds through the eyes of serious collectors and dealers. By Maureen Stanton October 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (595 words)

Where Does Love Go When It Dies?

There was a friend you saw every day when you were little. They were the friend with whom you built forts, told scary stories (trying not to fall asleep first), and ran around in the neighborhood…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1277 words)
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The Sweetest Thing

Searching for lost youth and the world’s most luscious apricots By Adam Leith Gollner, from Lucky Peach March/April 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (482 words)

Lights. Camera. Wait.

An aspiring actor endures the indignity of auditioning for commercials by Tess Lynch, from n+1 November-December 2011
LENGTH: 1 minutes (497 words)

Hurts So Good

Considering love and science at the Museum of Broken Relationships by Shannon Service, from Brink November-December 2011 Cour
LENGTH: 2 minutes (570 words)

The Awl's Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk

The Awl’s Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk: Our Top Longreads of 2011 (Left to right: Choire, Carrie, Alex) Because there are three of us, we trilaterally decided to go for 15. But…
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LENGTH: 1 minutes (408 words)

Eyes Like Lithium

November-December 2011 http://www.utne.com/Mind-Body/Eyes-Like-Lithium-Brother-High-Functioning-Autism.aspx by Danielle Cadena Deulen, from The…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2384 words)

Eyes Like Lithium

A girl struggles to understand her autistic brothers demons, real and imagined …
LENGTH: 2 minutes (608 words)
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