If Miscarriage is So Normal, Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About It? By Anna Lea Hand Feature When she loses a pregnancy, Anna Lea Hand searches in vain for vital advice and information.
Why Do Seventh-Day Adventists Live Longer Than Most Americans? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight This conservative Christian sect takes the Bible’s messages about the body very seriously. Even non-Christians can learn a lot from their healthy lifestyle.
How Do You Live In a Body That Doesn’t Feel Like Yours? If You Have No Choice, You Just Do. By Michelle Weber Highlight Paraic O’Donnell chronicles the progression of his MS with clarity, beauty, wit, and no small amount of sadness. Picking the most striking paragraph in this essay full of them is a fool’s errand.
How a Hurricane’s Trailing Winds Retold Willie Earle’s 1947 Mass Lynching By Krista Stevens Highlight “Even with a preponderance of evidence and testimonies, every man on trial got away with murder. This fact was not front-page news but tucked beneath odd stories called ‘Flashes of Life.'”
This Story About Coronavirus Is Both Deeply Alarming and Deeply Calming By Michelle Weber Highlight Just read it. And go wash your hands.
The Decline and Not-Quite-Instagrammable Fall of a Design Startup By Ben Huberman Highlight When an interior-design startup collapses, no filter can hide the ugly truth.
Sharing Our Stories Was Supposed to Dispel Our Shame By Sari Botton Highlight Emily Gould reconsiders the likelihood of women’s first-person writing bringing about change.
Miami: A Beginning By Jessica Lynne Feature Jessica Lynne remembers a long distance love affair that began in Miami and the Billie Holiday song that kept her company through the relationship’s transitions.
Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now? By Krista Stevens Highlight “And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
‘What’s this guy doing loose in Malheur County?’ By Michelle Weber Highlight He faked an insanity defense, got out, and immediately committed another crime, and this time people are dead. He’s going to plead insanity again.
Can Mickey Mouse Coexist with Bears, Panthers, and Alligators? By Krista Stevens Highlight “The treasures of wild Florida — landscapes, waterways, flora, and fauna — will soon disappear without drastic efforts to save them.”
Don’t Pretend Like You Don’t Love Wikipedia By Michelle Weber Highlight Without it, you’d have to actually, y’know, be productive.
I Have No Idea What You Corporate People Are Talking About By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Before I can parallel-path that project and route it back to you, you’ll need to explain what you’re asking in actual English, please.
Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.
Soli/dairy/ty By Liza Monroy Feature As a nursing mother newly exposed to the harsh realities of milk production, Liza Monroy reconsiders the dairy cow, and questions the meaning of compassion.
Making Periods Green To Topple Tampax By Carolyn Wells Highlight Will a pain-relieving, CBD-infused, biodegradable cotton tampon be enough to beat Tampax?
Sight and Insight By Liane Kupferberg Carter Feature After a childhood filled with intrusive medical interventions for misaligned eyes, Liane Kupferberg Carter wrestles with learning to see herself and others clearly.
When It’s Time to Tell By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.
House of the Century By Daisy Alioto Feature Daisy Alioto reconsiders the nature of architecture while researching window alarms.
Postcard from the (Literal) Edge By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her recovery memoir, Erin Khar recalls the depths of her self-destruction as a heroin addict.
Finding Answers about Life and Love in the Mountain Death Zone By Krista Stevens Highlight “There’s no reflective surfaces when you’re climbing. You’re just who you are.”
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
How the US Spied on Allies and Adversaries Alike By Krista Stevens Highlight The “United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.”
When Your Father Recruits You for a Life of Crime By Krista Stevens Highlight Archie Moretti believed he could steal and get away with it. It’d just take a little nepotism.
What If This Is It: Will Huey Lewis Sing Again? By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘The music went away slowly and then all at once. So what if it never comes back? “I haven’t allowed myself to go there yet,” Huey says, worry in his voice.’
The Danger of Befriending Celebrities By Michael Musto Feature Once upon a time, nightlife journalist Michael Musto didn’t set the strongest boundaries with the boldfaced names he covered.
The Most Common Airbnb Scams: A Roundup By Krista Stevens Highlight “…these emails paint a portrait of a platform whose creators are fundamentally unable to track what goes on within it, and point to easily exploitable loopholes that scammers have steamed their way through by the truckload.”
Closure in Service of Grief: the Septuagenarian Couple Who Locate Bodies Under Water By Krista Stevens Highlight “What Gene and Sandy offer is not the hope of rescue, but the solace of finality. They have spent years crisscrossing North America in the service of grief.”
Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas By Krista Stevens Highlight “Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”
All Mom’s Friends By Svetlana Kitto Feature Svetlana Kitto recalls her 1980s childhood in Hollywood during the early years of the AIDS crisis.
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