‘I Loved God, I Loved Believing’: An Interview with R.O. Kwon By Victoria Namkung Feature Not only will I never get my faith back, but I’m going to keep missing it. I’ll always have that longing — but there’s no going back into the garden.
Leaving a Good Man Is Hard To Do By Kelli María Korducki Feature When women end relationships, it seems like the emotion we most acutely feel is the guilt of having pushed it away.
A Beast for the Ages By Michael Engelhard Feature Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity?
How to Stay Married After Your Baby is Born, or, I’m not Divorced Yet By Longreads Feature An excerpt of ‘Now My Heart is Full,’ Laura June’s memoir, about the challenges new parenthood placed on her and her husband — and their marriage.
What Ever Happened To the Truth? By Bridey Heing Feature Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.
Dead Girls: An Interview with Alice Bolin By Hope Reese Feature It’s clear we love the Dead Girl, enough to rehash and reproduce her story, to kill her again and again. But not enough to see a pattern.
The Tyrant and His Enablers By Stephen Greenblatt Feature How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.
The Blue Ridge Country King By johnlingan Feature No one would have thought that Highland Ridge, Virginia was the center of anything. Then Jim McCoy’s honky-tonk came along.
‘Wild With Love’: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah on the Portraits of Henry Taylor By Danielle Jackson Highlight Henry Taylor’s portraits are sacred objects that lovingly center black subjects and black interiority.
Oregon’s Racist Past By Longreads Feature Starting in the mid-19th century, and extending through the mid-20th century, Oregon was arguably the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.
Peterson’s Complaint By Laurie Penny Feature There’s no use debating a feeling. It’s time to change how we engage with Jordan Peterson.
This Month in Books: ‘What Used To Be Me Before the World Buried It’ By Dana Snitzky Commentary Everyone is feeling very alone in this month’s books newsletter.
My Brother Comes to Moscow By Keith Gessen Feature ‘We had had many arguments, but he was my brother; he had always been my brother.’
Getting Tricked by Helen DeWitt By Brittany Allen Feature Helen DeWitt’s hectic, disruptive style reflects the content of her stories: the difficulty of living an authentic life, or telling anything like a “story,” in a ruthlessly disruptive world.
Eating Alone By Longreads Feature We’re eating alone more often than in any previous generation. But why should a meal on our own be uninspired? Why shouldn’t the French saying “life is too short to drink bad wine” still apply?
A Person Alone: Leaning Out with Ottessa Moshfegh By Hope Reese Feature Leaning in doesn’t work in real life. When I was writing, I kind of hoped that it would. I think I hoped that the answers are always within me. And when I reached the end of the book, it was like: there are no answers.
Taming the Great American Desert By johnforristerross Feature By advocating for agriculture in the arid West, Major John Wesley Powell challenged the way America viewed its right to develop the continent.
Your Best Work Comes from Scaring Yourself By Ryan Chapman Feature Essayist Chelsea Hodson had to give herself permission to be uncomfortable.
The Inward Empire By christiandonlan Feature A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.
Angrily Experiencing the Best Days of Our Lives By Linda Kinstler Feature Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.
The Daughter as Detective By Alice Bolin Feature A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
How the Self-Publishing Industry Changed, Between My First and Second Novels By Nicole Dieker Commentary In the last few years, self-publishing and marketing your own books has become increasingly more difficult.
‘I Had Nothing To Do With It But Have Been Punished’: Issac Bailey On His Brother Moochie, the Murderer By Tori Telfer Feature Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims.
The Camouflage Artist: Two World Wars, Two Loves, and One Great Deception By Mary Horlock Feature In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.
Old In Art School By Longreads Feature At 64, Nell Painter left a secure teaching position and went back to school to study art.
Trying to Kill the Want By Longreads Feature I was a grown, multi-degreed, loved, moneyed, professionally powerful woman who did not have the strength to wait one-third of an hour before having a drink.
Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s By Longreads Feature In my teens I was upset that I was too young to go out with any of the boys in my favorite bands. Now they’re all with women who weren’t even born when I had that thought.
Dorothy Allison on how Shame Defines Class By Krista Stevens Highlight “What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”
Series Exhumes Out-of-Print Books by Black Authors By Danielle Jackson Highlight “The Blackist,” a column for Catapult’s magazine, introduces audiences to out-of-print novels written by black authors.
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