Stories about walls and fences, physical and metaphorical.
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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A Search for the Man Who Saved My Parents’ Lives
A man searches for the French doctor who saved his parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War II.
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A Search for the Man Who Saved My Parents’ Lives
A man searches for the French doctor who saved his parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War II.
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Who Is the Man on the Moor?
At BBC News, Jon Manel traces the final journey of an unnamed man, found dead in Saddleworth Moor in Northern England.
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A Country Verging on Collapse: A Reading List on Venezuela
A reading list on the decline of Venezuela — and the stories of different people affected by the violence and instability in the country.
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Weed Reads: A Reading List About Marijuana
A reading list of eight stories on marijuana.
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I Was a Super Bowl Concession Worker
At Slate, Gabriel Thompson describes what it’s like to be a food-service worker at Levi’s Stadium at Super Bowl 50 — and explores the low-wage, part-time workforce of Silicon Valley.
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I Was a Super Bowl Concession Worker
At Slate, Gabriel Thompson describes what it’s like to be a food-service worker at Levi’s Stadium at Super Bowl 50 — and explores the low-wage, part-time workforce of Silicon Valley.
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Journalist Jack Shenker on the State of the Egyptian Revolution, Five Years Later
At the Guardian, Jack Shenker — author of the new book The Egyptians: A Radical Story — examines the future of the Egyptian Revolution.
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On the Brink of a Cure: An Innovative Immunologist’s Quest for an AIDS Vaccine
Louis Picker, an AIDS vaccine researcher in Portland, hopes to lay the groundwork for an HIV cure within the next two decades.