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In The New Yorker, Seth Mnookin reports about what one couple, Matt Might and Cristina Casanova, did when they discovered that their son had a rare condition that no doctor had ever heard about. We featured Might’s account of his family’s search to diagnose his son’s disease in 2012.
Photo of Matt Might by: David Van Horn

—Joshua Rothman, writing in the New Yorker about Virginia Woolf’s idea of privacy.

-Elaine Stritch, in a February interview with Michael Musto. Stritch died Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.

At Matter, the real-life Larry Smith talks about the other true story behind Orange Is the New Black—the one about Piper’s husband.

-Andrew J. Bacevich, in Notre Dame magazine, on the history of U.S. war in the Middle East over the past 30 years, and why there’s no end (or strategy) in sight.
More military in the Longreads Archive
Photo: usafe, Flickr

At Deadspin, Drew Magary looks at America’s ‘Kid-Competition Complex’ and explains why it’s problematic:
Photo: Luyen Chou

-Tom Junod, in Esquire.
More on Junod in the Longreads Archive
Photo: matthewalmonroth, Flickr

From E.J. Levy’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” which was featured in the 2005 edition of The Best American Essays, edited by Susan Orlean. When anyone asks me to name a favorite essay I’ve read, I often point to this one.

-Jill Abramson, from a forthcoming interview in Cosmopolitan.
More on Abramson in the Longreads Archive
Photo: New Yorker, YouTube
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