“Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children. “
Carolyn Wells
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Confessions of a Private Chef: Foie Gras for Pets, Ecstasy for Pud
“Jack Burke, who cooked for the one per cent, reveals a world where nothing is off the menu.”
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Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction
“Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas.”
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‘America is More Divided Than Ever — But How is it Affecting Our Love Lives? I Spent a Year Dating Conservative Men to Find Out’
“There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool.”
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Reckoning With Belonging in Britain
“Journeys to England’s asylum hotels prompt reflections on what it means when the country you call home may no longer want you.”
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Keira Knightley: ‘I Went Mad. I Just Managed to Hide It’
“She was already a huge Hollywood star at the age of 18. Keira Knightley tells Caitlin Moran how she struggled to cope with the intense scrutiny.”
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Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too.
“There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.”
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What’s the Trump Administration’s End Game for the National Parks?
“We saw it in Yosemite. But you have to look beyond the bathrooms.”
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Hidden in Plain Sight
“Jewish children who were ‘hidden’ in Christian families during the Holocaust have much to teach us about memory and trauma.”
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Help Us Stay a Home for the Weird
“Invite writers and readers in—magic will follow.” Six years ago, I published my first essay as an editor for Longreads. Margot Harris’s “Under the Knife” opens with a scene of cupcakes shaped like private parts (and goes on to discuss the guilt of having cosmetic surgery as a feminist). What a privilege, I thought at […]