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Sunday Stories: “Upstairs”

Upstairsby Kait Heacock Peter was an agoraphobic. He couldn’t tell you what that was a year ago, but he could describe to you now what it feels like to stand by the front door and feel the…
PUBLISHED: April 14, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3013 words)

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Eric Naiman L ate in 2011, Michiko Kakutani opened her New York Times review of Claire Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens with “a remarkable account” she had found in its…
LENGTH: 41 minutes (10281 words)

50 Years

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) John Earle Ronald Dworkin, Martha’s Vineyard, August 2005 Ronald Dworkin, who died on February 14 at the age of eighty-one, published over one hundred articles, reviews,…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 14, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1023 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?

Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. One day last summer, Anne and her husband, Miguel, took their 9-year-old son, Michael,…
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (700 words)

Post-Prozac Nation

Few medicines, in the history of pharmaceuticals, have been greeted with as much exultation as a green-and-white pill containing 20 milligrams of fluoxetine hydrochloride — the chemical we know as…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5115 words)
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