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How the Self-Publishing Industry Changed, Between My First and Second Novels By Nicole Dieker Commentary In the last few years, self-publishing and marketing your own books has become increasingly more difficult.
Nintendo Can Keep a Secret By Catherine Cusick Highlight The untold art of the fairytale comeback, brought to you by Nintendo.
Haruki Murakami Strolls Through His Childhood Home After the Hanshin Earthquake By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When Haruki Murakami walked the long distance between his childhood home outside Kobe and the city center, he found a city changed by the great Kobe earthquake, and the constant spector of violence.
Staten Island Wilderness, Going, Going, Gone? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One of the last pieces of wilderness on Staten Island might get bulldozed.
On Saving the Cuban Crocodile from American Invasion By Krista Stevens Highlight “…female Cuban crocs, who might normally struggle to find a mate from their own small population, suddenly encounter exotic suitors of an appealing size and shenanigans ensue.”
Meet Spitty, the Whippet Who Holds Five World Records By Krista Stevens Highlight “Science has proven the impossibility of the human brain to register self-pity, or maunder on about the generally sorry state of things, while in the presence of canine bellyflops.”
‘I Had Nothing To Do With It But Have Been Punished’: Issac Bailey On His Brother Moochie, the Murderer By Tori Telfer Feature Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims.
Puma’s Ploy to Become Relevant in Basketball Again By Matt Giles Commentary Deandre Ayton and Marvin Bagley spurned Nike and Adidas to sign with Puma. This isn’t the first time the sneaker company has made basketball history.
Mining Britain’s Recent Past to Save Our Future By Katie Kosma Highlight If the historically coal-reliant United Kingdom can come off the black stuff, can the United States?
Queens of Infamy: Anne Boleyn By Anne Thériault Feature In Tudor England’s big-sleeved game of thrones, winning and dying were not mutually exclusive.
The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor By Erynn Brook Feature It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.
Meet the New Mormons By Sarah Scoles Feature Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.
When ‘The Real World’ Gave Up on Reality By Rebecca Schuman Feature The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.
Tax-Free Storage Wars By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Feature Arcis is a new art storage facility in Harlem that offers its clients a Foreign Trade Zone. But are they selling the art world a luxury tax haven, or just banking on confusion?
Sex Workers vs. The Internet By Rick Paulas Feature Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.
How the Self-Publishing Industry Changed, Between My First and Second Novels By Nicole Dieker Commentary In the last few years, self-publishing and marketing your own books has become increasingly more difficult.
‘I Had Nothing To Do With It But Have Been Punished’: Issac Bailey On His Brother Moochie, the Murderer By Tori Telfer Feature Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims.
The Camouflage Artist: Two Worlds Wars, Two Loves, and One Great Deception By Mary Horlock Feature In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.
Old In Art School By Longreads Feature At 64, Nell Painter left a secure teaching position and went back to school to study art.
Trying to Kill the Want By Longreads Feature I was a grown, multi-degreed, loved, moneyed, professionally powerful woman who did not have the strength to wait one-third of an hour before having a drink.
Can This Tech Company’s Digital Border Wall Secure it More Government Defense Contracts? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Looking inside the new tech company who is building a cost-effective digital wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A Frustrating Year of Reporting on Black Maternal Health By Danielle Jackson Feature Stories of women of color dying of childbirth have dominated headlines — but little has been done to change postpartum care.
How Amazon Exploits Chinese Workers to Crank Out Its Products By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, exploits Chinese workers to manufacture Kindles and smart speakers.
Anthony Bourdain and the Missing Piece By Ian Frisch Feature With magic, the goal is to give someone something they can carry around with them for a while.
Could South Africa’s Drought Help Deconstruct the Divisions of Apartheid? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Cape Town’s drought has turned the once green city brown, but can it help unite the rich and poor and black and white?
How To Build An Intellectual By Hedia Anvar Feature For one young immigrant, growing up Iranian in New York City meant raising herself.
City on a Hill By Leslie Kendall Dye Feature A dementia patient’s daughter begins to question her own grasp on reality.
The Dangerous Beauty of Russian By Michelle Weber Highlight “A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil Kharms poems for children… One was a song about a man who went into the forest with a club and a bag, and never returned.”
A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead) By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.
Trying to Kill the Want By Longreads Feature I was a grown, multi-degreed, loved, moneyed, professionally powerful woman who did not have the strength to wait one-third of an hour before having a drink.
