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Posted inQuotes

Svetlana Alexievich Reminds Me of How to Be Human

by Krista Stevens October 5, 2022October 31, 2022

Sometimes I need to forget I’m an introvert.

A large white bookshelf, most shelves only sparsely populated
Posted inHighlight, Quotes

Reading Doesn’t Have to Mean Keeping Your Books Forever

by Peter Rubin September 22, 2022October 19, 2022

“The paradox of the library in our time is that it aspires to be vast but is also selective and bounded – a tiny droplet of material in a seemingly limitless sea of content.”

Posted inNonfiction

‘We Deserve So Much More Than Police, Prisons, and Jails’: Scalawag Takes On Emmy-Winning Television

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 15, 2022October 21, 2022

We recommend these incisive essays on Abbott Elementary, The White Lotus, and The Dropout in Scalawag’s series on pop culture and justice.

Singer Candi Staton, smiling, hands on her hips, over a patchwork clip of images of her over the years.
Posted inFeature

“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day”

by David Gambacorta July 12, 2022October 20, 2022

Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.

Four women — members of rock band L7 — pose on a park bench wearing sunglasses.
Posted inFeature

The Women Who Built Grunge

by Lisa Whittington-Hill June 29, 2022August 21, 2023

Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.

Stairs set into a mountain trail, leading into the mist
Posted inReading List

Stranger Things: A Reading List of Unsolved Mysteries

by Lisa Bubert June 15, 2022October 19, 2022

Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.

A portrait of a man in handlebar mustache on a bicycle, in front of a collage of images of the same man on his bicicyle in different locales
Posted inStory

The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting

by Robert Isenberg April 26, 2022October 18, 2022

More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.

A man sniffing a mushroom
Posted inNonfiction

The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell

by Genevieve Fullan April 12, 2022October 13, 2022

Why it’s important to give things a sniff.

Woman hiding under the blanket, chatting and surfing the internet with smart phone at late night on bed.
Posted inNonfiction

Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline

by Lisa Bubert March 9, 2022October 19, 2022

Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Reading List

Charting Worlds: Five Longreads About Maps

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 15, 2022October 19, 2022

From fantasylands to unique cartographers (including one that’s non-human), here are five stories about maps.

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