At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
2018
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The Truth About Green Book
Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, a “true story” about an Italian-American bouncer who escorts a black pianist on a tour of the Jim Crow South in 1962, is emerging as an awards season frontrunner. But the family of the pianist, Dr. Shirley, has dismissed the film, not just for its factual inaccuracies, but for essentially revising and rewriting […]
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight
This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2018: Crime Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.
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Ghosts of Highway 20
In a five-part series, The Oregonian pieces together the complicated untold story of the women who were raped and went missing on a single Oregon highway. One man appears to be responsible for it all.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Quotes
The Rich Man and the Sea
Laurie Penny spends four days on a boat confronting the archetypal story of “man vs. blockchain.”
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‘Do I Really Want to Hurt My Baby?’
“Intrusive thoughts are virtually universal among both new mothers and new fathers. ‘If they say they don’t have them, he told me, ‘they’re lying.’”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Science & Nature, Story
At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side
Solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction, demands radical optimism of its writers and readers. It takes the apocalypse as given, but doesn’t assume the worst of people living through it.
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On the Front Porch, Black Life in Full View
From literature to identity, upward mobility to forging community, this one architectural element continues to play an important role across generations in Detroit.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2018: Essays
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.