When You Race Across Antarctica, Remember Your Spare Skis By Krista Stevens Highlight “They would face wind chill temperatures in the neighborhood of minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit, whiteout days with little visibility, unseasonable snowfall, isolation and pain.”
This Post Was Originally 200 Words Longer But They Weren’t Sparking Joy By Michelle Weber Highlight “Instead of homes, we live in commodities.”
Carvell Wallace on ‘Moonlight’ Writer Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Next Acts By Danielle Jackson Highlight Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Broadway debbut,, “Choir Boy,” is a tender coming of age story about a queer Black boy at a prestigious boarding school.
Motherhood: ‘Thank God I think I love it??’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “We are experts in our own lives, but ignored by the world at large.”
The Gift Economy By Joanne Solomon Feature In the desert at Burning Man, Joanne Solomon dissects the implicit transaction that defines her cross-cultural love affair.
‘Rhyming Was No Longer a Symptom, But a Cure’: From Stroke Survivor to Rap Legend By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight For stroke survivor Sherman Hershfield, rapping and rhyming kept his seizures under control.
There Was Nothing We Could Have Done, Because We’re Racist and You’re Black By Michelle Weber Highlight “The prevalent perception of black women as unruly bodies and incompetent caretakers overrules even the most dominant stereotype about us—namely, that we are superhuman.”
Musicians Come Clean on How They Live, Create, and Thrive While Sober By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.
Of Blackness and ‘Beauty’ By Morgan Jerkins Feature At an art exhibit exploring black models through Western art, Morgan Jerkins finds historical evidence of the white supremacist definitions of beauty Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom identifies in ‘Thick: and Other Essays.’
Our Understanding of Sun Exposure and Health Keeps Evolving By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Who would have thought scientists would ever compare wearing sunscreen to smoking cigarettes? At Outside magazine, Rowan Jacobsen explores.
‘She changed my heart. And that changed my mind.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “There was so much I could have given her, but it pales in comparison to what she gave me.”
This Heist’s for the Birds By Michelle Weber Highlight “I always say, If there is a $50,000 bill flying around, someone is going to try to catch it.”
Why Murder-Suicide is on the Rise Among the Elderly By Krista Stevens Highlight “He thought he could live with the punishment of grief—he had done what his wife had asked—but the punishment of the law would be another matter.” Ann Neumann investigates why mercy killings and murder-suicides are on the rise.
Tommy Tomlinson: The Weight I Carry By Krista Stevens Highlight “On top of all that, some of us fight holes in our souls that a boxcar of donuts couldn’t fill.” Tommy Tomlinson shares the physical and emotional costs of weighing 460 pounds.
At Risk, at Home and Abroad By Joy Notoma Feature As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.
“Welcome to the House of Horrors”: When IP Address Mapping Goes Wrong By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess.
Stories to Read in 2019 By Longreads Reading List A dozen exceptional stories from 2018 that deserve our ongoing attention.
Blackstars By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
On Alcoholism, Sobriety, and Running Toward a Future By Krista Stevens Highlight “…no one sober knows if they’re going to be sober forever. It was a forgiving moment, and it humbled me.”
On the Books We Choose and Those We Don’t By Krista Stevens Highlight “All the people you could have been had you chosen differently—they haunt the bookstore alongside the person you became and could still become.”
The Promise of Passive Income from Amazon: Too Good To Be True? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Two self-proclaimed “Amazon coaches” say they can train you in their business models so you can make thousands of dollars reselling cheap Chinese products on the world’s largest ecommerce store.
In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure By Lauren DePino Feature Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
Cowards and Accomplices By Judith Hertog Feature In light of her own family’s experience during the Holocaust, Judith Hertog considers her ethical responsibilities in today’s world.
Evidence Over Intelligence: How Robert Mueller Sought Justice for Pan Am Flight 103 By Krista Stevens Highlight The 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 has had a lasting effect on Robert Mueller and the FBI.
The Curious Case of Justin Alexander: Adventure Tourist or Murder Victim? By Krista Stevens Highlight In the Parvati Valley, the road to enlightenment is paved with danger.
A Woman’s Work: The Outside Story By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson catalogues her efforts to maintain her appearance from about 1970 to 2018.
A Race to Claim a Piece of Space: The Out-of-This World Obsession of Meteorite Hunters By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Meteorite hunters Mike Farmer and Robert Ward travel to Carancas, a tiny village at 12,000 feet in Peru’s remote altiplano, to examine a crater in the hope to claim precious rock from space.
Swipe White By Jennifer Chong Schneider Feature Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
A Portrait of the Mother as a Young Girl By Marlene Adelstein Feature Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.
Take Script, Add Snow By Jane Borden Feature The psychology behind America’s obsession with Hallmark Christmas movies.
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