A son spends years trying to learn what happened to a talented young musician whom his mother loved and never forgotten, and recovers some of the music he left behind.
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Against Confession: On Intersectional Feminism, Radical Catholicism, and Redefining Remorse
Laura Goode investigates her Catholic identity—the radical, feminist, social-justice-oriented version she discovered upon encountering the mysteries of marriage and motherhood—years after her departure from the guilt-stricken, conservative Catholicism of her upbringing.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
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The Detective of Northern Oddities
A profile of Kathy Burek, a veterinary pathologist who performs necropsies on animals (whales, sea otters, polar bears) that mysteriously turn up dead in Alaska.
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NPR’s Mobile Home Series
A two-part report on conditions at mobile home parks in the U.S. Read parts one and two here.
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Carrie Fisher on Sharing Her Private Life, and on Her Mother, Debbie Reynolds
“Oh, I think I do overshare, and I sometime marvel that I do it.”
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What Makes for a Perfectly Seasoned Dish?
A theory from Momofuku’s David Chang.
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Little Government in the Big Woods
Melissa Gilbert’s lost bid for Congress and the forgotten political history of ‘Little House on the Prairie.’
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Little Government in the Big Woods
Melissa Gilbert’s lost bid for Congress and the forgotten political history of ‘Little House on the Prairie.’
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The Wildlife Officers Trying to Get Florida’s Human-Alligator Conflicts Under Control
Andrew Revkin’s 1988 story on the rise of human-alligator conflicts in Florida.