Sometimes a Bowl of Soup is Just a Bowl of Soup By Michelle Weber Highlight And sometimes it’s the embodiment of the cages of wealth and privilege we build around ourselves.
‘Trump Wouldn’t Be President Without the Neoliberalization of New York City’ By Sari Botton Feature A conversation about hyper-gentrification with Vanishing New York author Jeremiah Moss.
Mourning the Low-Rent, Weirdo-Filled East Village of Old By Jeremiah Moss Feature An excerpt of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Jeremiah Moss.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Lois Beckett, Julia O’Malley, Alice Driver, and Sarah Jeong.
The Colorblind Whitewashers of American History By Michelle Weber Highlight Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw offers a sharp rebuke to those who would declare our country “post-racial.”
Flying Solo By Jen Doll Feature Jen Doll tries to make sense of a breakup that happened the day before a romantic vacation — and blindsided her in the same ways the presidential election did.
Alice Driver on the Passion to Create and the Fear of Failure By Krista Stevens Highlight It took Alice Driver’s dad 2 1/2 years and 4,000 bricks to build his fourth wood-fired kiln. But would it fire properly?
Open Burning: A Banned Practice That’s Poisoning America By Krista Stevens Highlight Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals are poisoning people and the environment today in practice called “open burning” which was banned over 30 years ago.
An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad) By Ben Huberman Highlight When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.
“Beef and cheese are the most important ingredients… But really, cheese.” By Michelle Weber Highlight Who’s moving America’s (1.3 billion pounds of) cheese? The Dairy Management Institute
Poems: Protection From Isolation and Solitary Confinement By Krista Stevens Highlight What we all need now? Poetry, sweet poetry.
Women of Color Are Blazing New Paths on Old Trails By Sari Botton Highlight Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.
In a League of His Own: One Man’s Mission to Make Moviegoing Fun Again By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.
There’s No Equality In Baseball By Michelle Weber Highlight The young women of Girls Travel Baseball are mocked by opposing players, but they keep on playing.
Why the “Black Grateful Dead” Thrives Outside of Top 40 Radio By Danielle Jackson Highlight For the Undefeated, music writer and essayist Bruce Britt offers a compelling history of soul band Maze.
Searching London for My ‘Third Place’ By Jessica Brown Feature Years after agoraphobia kept her housebound, Jessica Brown walks the streets of her adopted city seeking deeper connection.
The 1923 Novel That Helps Us Understand Today’s Racial Climate By Danielle Jackson Commentary ‘Cane’ is a series of vignettes about life in rural Georgia told from the point of view of an ambivalently black teacher from the north.
The St. Louis Suburbs Bear the Cost of America’s Nuclear Past By Danielle Jackson Highlight After toxic waste from the Manhattan Project was illegally dumped in 1974, rare illnesses have effected the local population.
Men Explain Sylvia Plath’s Suffering to Us By Sari Botton Highlight Emily Van Duyne wonders why Sylvia Plath’s accounts of Ted Hughes’s violence toward her have been so frequently dismissed or minimized.
What’s The Matter With Texas? How Long Do You Have? By Michelle Legro Commentary Look to Texas for the future of electoral politics, writes Lawrence Wright. Unfortunately, the future is already here.
The Resilience of a Middle Distance Runner By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Gabriele Grunewald’s rare cancer has returned, but the athlete keeps fighting.
Who I Became at the Running of the Bulls By Ella Alexander Feature In Pamplona, Ella Alexander found an adrenaline rush, an interesting story, and a side of herself she didn’t recognize.
Conservative Values, Meet Drag Values By Catherine Cusick Commentary RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Velour responds to a divisive political climate by celebrating beauty, brains, and belonging.
Manspreading Writ Large: Rebecca Solnit on Space By Michelle Weber Highlight In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?
The Re-Kazakhification of Kazakhstan, On Horseback By Michelle Weber Highlight After years of Soviet control, the country looks to the cultural foundations of its nomadic past.
The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families By Krista Stevens Highlight As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
#FrenchGirlGoals: Artful Dishevelment and Animal Fats By Michelle Weber Highlight There’s big money for fashion and beauty companies in encouraging the women of the world to emulate the French Girl.
You’re Not Really Going to Move to Toronto By Michelle Weber Highlight You can probably stop browsing those real estate listings.
New York in the 1970s Gave Us Hip Hop, Madonna, and the Chip on Trump’s Shoulder By Ben Huberman Highlight “You bang your head against the wall to try to get some nice buildings up, and what happens? Everybody comes after you.”
Nina Simone’s Three Years of Freedom By Danielle Jackson Highlight At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.
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