“I think I’m the evil, damned son of the devil.”
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia.
“In tribal communities across Namibia, older, eccentric people are often accused of witchcraft and violently attacked.”
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I Was Given a House – But It Already Belonged to a Detroit Family
“Miraculously, Tomeka Langford is willing to talk to me.”
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She Was Killed by the Police. Why Were Her Bones in a Museum?
“Katricia Dotson’s remains were studied, disputed, displayed and litigated.”
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These Highly Trained Rats Have Sniffed Out 150,000 Explosives
“The rats are fine: How once-overlooked animal skills are helping humans.”
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The Original Tiger Kings
“At the peak of their fame, they were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini.”
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‘We Have Broken the Wall of Fear’
“Iranian protesters on what brings them back to the streets four weeks in.”
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The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism
“A space tourism industry is being built on the proposition of personal and existential transformation. But at what cost?”
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I Once Fell for the Fantasy of Uploading Ourselves. It’s a Destructive Vision.
“In the early 2000s, I spent hundreds of hours trying to upload my mind to the web.”
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This Is Life in the Metaverse
“Every hour of the day and night with the gamers, parents, insomniacs, preteens and aspiring comedians who are the earliest adopters of the immersive, three-dimensional internet that Mark Zuckerberg has bet the future of his company on.”