As Innocuous as Plant No. 1 By Aaron Gilbreath Feature William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine By Longreads Feature In 1945, Les Temps modernes shocked the world with its pessimism and grim determination, and catapulted its founders into intellectual superstardom.
Rules for Departure By Rachel Z. Arndt Feature While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Rachel Z. Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break.
A Certain Kind of Mammal By Meaghan O'Connell Feature Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
Where Have You Hidden the Cholera? By Longreads Feature In Mozambique and around the world — and throughout history — cholera outbreaks have caused riots. Why? And what does it have to do with bicycles?
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean By Natalie Daher Feature On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me By Steve Almond Feature Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the ‘bad stories’ he believes delivered our country to the Trump era.
Bending the Straight Line of Queer History By Manuel Betancourt Feature Recent novels by Alan Hollinghurst, John Boyne, and Tim Murphy experiment with the idea of progress over time.
“We All Had the Same Acid Flashback at the Same Time”: The New American Cuisine By Longreads Feature How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval By Longreads Feature Hunter-gatherers tended to think of pets as part of the family, and so do we. But in other time periods, intimacy with animals has been more taboo.
The Island that Disappeared By Aaron Gilbreath Feature An Englishman searches for what’s left of Providence, a failed Puritan colony in the Caribbean.
“Hey, Can I Sleep In Your Room?”: Studying Love with Elizabeth Flock By Jonny Auping Feature Elizabeth Flock on the years she spent studying other people’s marriages in Mumbai.
Leslie Jamison: Does Recovery Kill Great Writing? By Krista Stevens Highlight When Leslie Jamison got sober she wanted to know how a life lived without alcohol would affect her writing.
The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition By Longreads Feature Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice.
The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV By Longreads Feature An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.
Grown-Woman Theology By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
The Invisible Lives of Young Women With Chronic Illnesses By Jessica Gross Feature Michele Lent Hirsch on the challenges young women with serious health issues face while navigating their relationships, careers, and own sense of who they are.
Lying Down in the Dirt: An Interview with Denis Johnson By Janet Steen Feature “I thought I’d never publish these things. I thought it was important for me to hide the fact that I’m not right in the head.”
Kara Walker’s Subtlety By Longreads Feature In the summer of 2014, Kara Walker’s sphinx posed a riddle about women, sweetness, and power.
Little Führers Everywhere By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Vegas Tenhold spent six years covering the disorganized chaos of hate groups, and watched as they began to gather around a few media savvy voices.
An Education in Doubt By Catherine Cusick Feature In her memoir ‘Educated,’ Tara Westover studies herself to safety, but books can’t rescue her from the memories of sustained violence.
The Great Online School Scam By Longreads Feature Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
The Making of a Black Fortune By Aaron Gilbreath Feature America’s first black millionaires were born into slavery — and built wealth alongside political power.
How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians By Longreads Feature Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Alan Watts and the Eternal Present By Tom Maxwell Highlight To know happiness in the future, we must be happy now.
Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.
The Money His Father Left Behind, and the Life it Would Start By Michelle Legro Commentary When Alexander Chee’s father died at 43, he left behind a trust that would set the course of his son’s life.
Ten Books to Read in 2018 By Catherine Cusick Highlight We asked writers, editors, and booksellers to tell us about a few books they felt deserved more recognition last year.
Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America By Laurie Gwen Shapiro Feature Billy Gawronski was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.
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