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The Woman of the House

“Well, there’s that if you’d want it,” the crippled man said. “It’s a long time waiting for attention. You’d need tend the mortar.”The two men…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 15, 2008
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5458 words)

The Nightmare of the West Memphis Three

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000), Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011) three films directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky HBO, three…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2547 words)

Weekend Reading: Eyes Open

Hurricane Sandy. Photo: NASA It was a bad week. Hurricane Sandy struck New York with great force, destroying thousands of people’s homes, killing dozens, and bringing our nation’s…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1232 words)

The Things They Carried: At The National Wife-Carrying Championships

In 2011, Dave Castro came up three feet short. It's happened before—for Dave and for his wife Lacey, perennial contenders at the North American Wife-Carrying Championships, a raucous gathering…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2772 words)
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Obama vs. Poverty

A street in Roseland, the struggling Chicago neighborhood where a young Barack Obama worked as a community organizer. More Photos » From the back seat of Steve Gates’s white Pontiac, Monique Robbins…
AUTHOR:Paul Tough
PUBLISHED: Aug. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7366 words)

lust and liberty in the 18th century

We believe in sexual freedom. We take it for granted that consenting men and women have the right to do what they like with their bodies. Sex is everywhere in our culture. We love to think and talk…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4053 words)

My top 12 longreads of 2011

The wonderful site Longreads is collating people’s picks of the best long features of the year. Some say that the internet is triggering a renaissance for long-form writing and I very much…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1121 words)

Out of the shadows

22 September 2011 W.G. Sebald, stifled by the culture of silence in post-war Germany, by 'people's ability to forget what they do not want to know', settled in 1960s England and wrote…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2610 words)
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