Trump Properties As Symbols of American Mediocrity and Lies By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.
Walking the Line in the Bekaa Valley By Ben Huberman Highlight A traveling crew of slackliners is trying to bring a moment of balance to young Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
The Friend That Got Away By Beverly Donofrio Feature Beverly Donofrio looks back on a friendship she hadn’t expected to make — or to lose.
How to Run a Magazine in the Desert By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Ken Layne designs, edits, and distributes his independent magazine Desert Oracle from tiny Joshua Tree, California.
When Financial Privilege is Mistakenly Assumed By Sari Botton Highlight Lilly Dancyger speaks out about her humble upbringing.
“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.
What Is New York City Without Its Historic Buildings? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A city loses its life-force when it loses its historic buildings.
Giving Tex-Mex Its Due By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why does Tex-Mex get such a bad rap when it’s a legitimate culinary tradition predating Texas statehood?
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 Man in the Mirror By Alison Kinney Feature In the aftermath of rape, Alison Kinney discovers that a new lover who helps you to heal can just as easily betray you.
Emotional Preparedness for a Dying Planet By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?
Looking Back On the Last Housing Bubble From the Precipice of the Next One By Sari Botton Highlight A decade later, some homeowners still haven’t recovered from the mortgage crisis of 2008.
The Baller Women of the Billiards Tour By Krista Stevens Highlight Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.
Dorm Living for Adults By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The new Common co-living company isn’t as communal is it pretends.
The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding By Susan Fekete Feature Mom would make excuses about not having cleaned the house. I knew they were lies. I knew her house was full.
One Georgia Farmer’s Experiment in Racial Equality By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Minister Clarence Jordan founded Koinonia Farm in 1942 to be, in his words, a “demonstration plot for the kingdom of God.” Can it endure in our racially charged modern climate?
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.
Homeward Bound: Allegedly a Sea of Sexual Harassment in the Field of Science By Krista Stevens Highlight A program to encourage women to take leadership positions in the field of science has sailed into the rough seas of the #metoo movement.
It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.
Doomed in Nashville By Monica Drake Feature On a whirlwind book tour, Monica Drake fights to resist the pull of an emotional — and physical — abyss.
How Jerry and Marge Gamed the Lottery By Krista Stevens Highlight All they did was bet big. And they won, time and again.
It Depends on What the Meaning of ‘Consent’ Is By Sari Botton Highlight Monica Lewinsky reframes her understanding of sexual consent as it applied to her relationship with Bill Clinton through the lens of the #MeToo moment.
To Be a Lexicographer Is to Surrender to Folly By Ben Huberman Highlight On the never-ending, unattainable quest to create the perfect English dictionary.
“My Sparkling Brain”: Dealing with Multiple Sclerosis at Age 27 By Krista Stevens Highlight Meredith White finds a way to cope with the weight of knowing she has MS.
But Where Will We Put Uncle Larry? By Krista Stevens Highlight When you bury a body, it stays in the cemetery. Cremation presents a whole new issue: where to store the deceased.
How to Write a Memoir While Grieving By Nicole Chung Feature Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.
How Much Would You Endure to Flee Persecution? By Krista Stevens Highlight Now that Europe welcomes migrants no longer, asylum seekers are making nearly impossible journeys through South America to the United States.
Casting Out Satan and Your Religious Upbringing By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How one woman struggled to make sense of the exorcisms she witnessed as a child.
Trying to Understand YouTube Success By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How a successful YouTube celebrity barely leaves the house.
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