In 2020, Michaela Coel and Donald Glover had a Zoom conversation. British GQ published it all.
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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Searching for Mr. X
“For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?”
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Curator Spotlight: Vesna Jaksic Lowe on What It Means To Straddle Multiple Cultures
The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf.
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I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane?
“After 18 months of pandemic parenting isolation, the writer Jon Mooallem knew just where the cure might lie: a minor-league baseball game in eastern Washington.”
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On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
“Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers.”
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Strangers in Our Own Homes
“We frequently ghost ourselves even when we are looking in the mirror, hoping to show up worthier, richer, fairer, and lovelier for this country.”
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’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience
Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.
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My Time with Kurt Cobain
“Despite Kurt’s torment—or in a determined attempt to overcome it—Nirvana made life-affirming music. It made me feel better.”
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Police Are Giving Amazon Ring Cameras to Survivors of Domestic Violence. Is It Helping?
“Experts question whether these always-on surveillance devices, provided by police departments with close ties to Ring marketing representatives, are really the right tools to make survivors safer.”
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We Are the Ones Who Got Away
“The patriarch brings ‘domestic violence’ on vacation.”