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The Fact-Check and the Fury: A Chat With the Writers and Editor Behind The Atavist‘s New Issue
By Brendan O'Meara Feature

In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Leigh Baldwin and Sean Williams about co-writing “Follow the Leader.”

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This Old Dog
By Keshia Naurana Badalge Feature

A testament to my sister, who likes to walk ahead.

“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day”
By David Gambacorta Feature

Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.

Final Girl, Terrible Place
By Lesley Finn Feature

I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.

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The Making of Silent Bruce
By Matt Zoller Seitz  / New York Magazine
The Most Surveilled Place in America
By Gaby Del Valle  / The Verge
Sam Taggart’s Hard Sell
By Tad Friend  / The New Yorker
Moral Panics Come and Go. Sex Bracelet Hysteria Is Forever.
By Claire McNear  / The Ringer
Where There’s Smoke
By Paloma Pacheo  / Maisonneuve
The People of the Cloud
By Steven Gonzalez Monserrate  / Aeon
Inside a Kansas Clinic Where the Battle Over Abortion Is Still Raging
By Becca Andrews  / Mother Jones
‘The Deepest Silences’: What Lies Behind the Arctic’s Indigenous Suicide Crisis
By Hugh Brody  / The Guardian
Kate Price Remembers Something Terrible
By Janelle Nanos  / Boston Globe Magazine
Living in a Doomed Paradise Where the Sea Consumes Cottages, Cliffs, and the A&W Drive-Thru
By Taras Grescoe  / Hakai Magazine
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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This week, our editors recommend longreads by Janelle Nanos, Paloma Pacheo, Radley Balko, Claire McNear, and Tad Friend.

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This week, our editors recommend longreads by Kelsey Vlamis, Brian Feldman, Skip Hollandsworth, Tessa Somberg, and Alison Espach.

More Than a Feeling: A Blues Reading List
By Chris Wheatley Feature

A hundred years on from its birth, the music continues to speak to the heart — an art form that also serves as social commentary, communal history, and cathartic release.

What We Save, What We Destroy: A Reading List on Difficult Heritage
By Annalisa Bolin Feature

The present we inhabit is shaped by the mixed legacies of the past.

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This week, our editors recommend longreads by Benjamin Wofford, Josh Dzieza, Evan Osnos, Alice Wong & Ed Yong, and Dan Kois.

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
By Longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Jason Fagone and Alexandria Bordas, Jennifer Senior, Lachlan Summers, Lupita Limón Corrales, and Anna Wiener.

An Unseen World: A Reading List about Fermentation
By Julia Skinner Feature

Ferments are found in every culture and cuisine on earth, and the history of their production is deeply interwoven with our own. 

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
By longreads Weekly Top 5

This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Katie Barnes, Rachel Handler, Alex Hawkins, Lila Shapiro, and Raksha Vasudevan.

How Vladimir Putin Helped ‘Nazify’ Modern Germany
By Longreads Feature

Rainer Sonntag was a far-right vigilante. He was also a Communist spy.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Justin Heckert, Gloria Liu, Sharon Levy, and Mychal Denzel Smith.

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Love Song to Costco
By Yuxi Lin Feature

“In the great halls of Costco, two of our greatest fears are assuaged — that of not having enough, and that of not being enough.”

Final Girl, Terrible Place
By Lesley Finn Feature

I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.

The Women Who Built Grunge
By Lisa Whittington-Hill Feature

Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.

This Old Dog
By Keshia Naurana Badalge Feature

A testament to my sister, who likes to walk ahead.

More Than a Feeling: A Blues Reading List
By Chris Wheatley Feature

A hundred years on from its birth, the music continues to speak to the heart — an art form that also serves as social commentary, communal history, and cathartic release.

“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day”
By David Gambacorta Feature

Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.

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