“With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged.”
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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Are There More Bunnies in Toronto?
“I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then they were everywhere. Then I lost my mind.”
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Why Are Fish So Gay?
“A conversation about finding community in the aquatic.”
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The Capybaras Aren’t All Right
“The internet’s favorite animal is facing a dark fate.”
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Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers
“The industry has grown rapidly, straining state budgets. A focus on finances has led to overbilling, fraud and even harm.”
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
“An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.”
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Inside the Shaolin Monastery that Helped Build Victor Wembanyama
“This is the story of how 34 generations of Shaolin warrior history trained a once-in-a-generation NBA superstar.”
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Traversing the Mahjong Multiverse
“As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?”
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Roadside Attraction
“The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am.”