Facebook’s botched war against propaganda campaigns.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Media, Story, Uncategorized
2018
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
Army of Me
A woman who doesn’t feel like going to work today stays in bed and looks at the internet instead. She finds a blog by a fed-up call center employee who complains about the customers.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Native New Yorkers Reflect on the Death of the ‘Village Voice’
From love to rage to resignation.
Posted inNonfiction, Sports, Story
Losers’ Lunch
Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Christine Kenneally, Desiree Stennett and Lisa Rowan, Andrea Long Chu, Victoria Blanco, and David Kushner.
Posted inEditor's Pick
White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in Their Work
An essay in which author and academic Angela Pelster-Wiebe considers the best ways for white authors and artists to quit side-stepping the subjects of deeply rooted structural racism and their own privilege, and help dismantle white supremacy with their work.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Current Events
Michael, Aretha, Beyoncé, and the Black Press
The Black press has always been where Black artists could have their work spoken about with integrity.
Posted inEditor's Pick
I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.
“When scholars defend Avital — or ‘complicate the narrative,’ as we like to say — in part this is because we cannot stand believing what most people believe. The need to feel smarter is deep. Intelligence is a hungry god. “
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Oh! Small-bany! Part 2
The second chapter in Novelist Elisa Albert’s Albany “quartet.” Notes from an awful winter.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
O, Small-bany! Part 2: Winter
Notes from an awful winter.