The Currency of Cars: How to Leave a Husband By Debbie Weingarten Feature The rickety ’98 Volvo wagon didn’t look like much, but it provided Debbie Weingarten and her children safe passage to a new life.
Acting With Agency: The Power and Possibility of Heroic Women By Michelle Weber Highlight At The Paris Review, Megan Mayhew Bergman looks to history to define what makes an adventurous woman.
‘They Would Try to Love Whoever Killed Her, and Forgive.’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In 1985, a girl was abducted and left to die in Winnipeg’s severe cold. While her parents, Cliff and Wilma Derksen, did not yet know the killer’s identity, they made a decision to forgive.
Haute Cuisine Has a Low Wage Problem By Ben Huberman Highlight How an army of unpaid apprentices keeps the world’s best restaurants afloat.
Ending Depression With a Push of a Button, But Only For a Moment By Michelle Weber Highlight For people with severe, depression, deep-brain stimulation offers an uncertain but potentially life-altering solution.
His Heart, Her Hands: A Pianist Helps a Musician with Fading Memory to Save the Songs in His Head By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he never recorded or wrote anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist to help save the music in his head.
The (Film) Revolution Will Be Streamed By Ben Huberman Highlight “We have to get rid of the romantic part.”
‘S-Town’ Host Brian Reed Talks Ethics in Journalism By Krista Stevens Highlight Katie Kilkenny interviews S-Town host Brian Reed on ethics and his approach to reporting on the popular investigative podcast.
Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone By Krista Stevens Highlight In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re featuring stories from Richard Beck, Rebecca Mead, Sarah Barker, Dylan Matthews, and Sarah Scoles.
The Conservative Movement to Get the GOP on Board With Global Warming By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight These conservatives are hoping to rally Republican voters around global warming in a way that gets the GOP to finally listen.
How to Disappear By Alex Difrancesco Feature For Alex DiFrancesco, coming out as transgender—even to themself—wasn’t possible without first disappearing.
The Masterful Storyteller: A David Grann Reading List By Matt Giles Reading List With ‘The Lost City of Z’ now in theaters, we revisit a few favorites from the ‘New Yorker’ writer’s tales of obsession.
The Barkley Marathons: Toeing the Line Between “Extreme Sports” and “Prank” By Michelle Weber Highlight The Barkley Marathon is five 20+ mile loops that runners must navigate in under 60 hours. Sarah Barker explores the event and the people who attempt this race-slash-ordeal.
A Trip to Syria, Remembered By Pam Mandel Commentary In 2007, David Zoby went on an academic tour of Syria. He admits he was kind of a fraud, but he went anyway.
In 1975, Newsweek Predicted A New Ice Age. We’re Still Living with the Consequences. By Longreads Feature All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.
A Mystery Wrapped in an Engima, Then Shoved Under the Desk By Michelle Weber Highlight Waste paper baskets: deeply symbolic, paradoxical items. Who knew?
‘Hopely I’ll See You Again’: An Unlikely but Wonderful Love Affair By Krista Stevens Highlight Noah Cho ruminates on why his blond, all-American mother chose his “barely bilingual” Korean father.
‘Women and Girls Were Not Jumping Up and Down to be Interviewed’: Rukmini Callamichi on Interviewing ISIS Sex Slaves By Sari Botton Highlight The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.
The Inevitable and Magical Life of Beverly Cleary, All 101 Years of It By Michelle Weber Highlight The beloved creator of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins enters her second century.
Why Dylan Matthews Donated His Kidney to a Stranger and You Should Too By Krista Stevens Highlight At Vox, Matthews recounts the the long and rewarding process of donating a kidney to a perfect stranger.
In the 1970s, It Was The Police That Made Made Detroit’s Streets Deadly By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A special police unit terrorized the innocent and murdered the unarmed in the years after Detroit’s race riots.
Sesame Street’s New Autistic Character Could Be Groundbreaking By Krista Stevens Commentary At Vox, Dylan Matthews posits that Julia could have a real influence on how society embraces those with autism.
What it Means to be Korean in the West By Krista Stevens Highlight While searching for a Korean radish to make her grandmother’s soup, Vivien Lee meditates on family and food.
Is That a Pillowcase Full of Human Hair, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? By Michelle Weber Highlight Annie Correal’s story on the last New York wigmakers has a little bit of everything: celebrity gossip, religious scandals, and of course, wigs.
Arkansas’ Capital Punishment Spree: ‘It Ain’t Gonna Work on Some of Them’ By Michelle Weber Highlight The state prepares to kill seven men this month with a soon-to-expire supply of lethal injection drugs.
Curiosity, Unfettered: Margaret Atwood as the Prophet of Dystopia By Krista Stevens Highlight Rebecca Mead’s profile in The New Yorker covers the resonance of The Handmaid’s Tale in Donald Trump’s America.
When Does a Company Decide You Are Human? By Mark Armstrong Highlight We have surrendered logic and empathy in favor of the distance and simplicity of corporate rule-making.
Considering the Wall By Longreads Feature Hadrian’s Wall, that is. Max Adams explores Britain’s lost early medieval past by walking its ancient paths.
In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale: Overcoming the Evil Stepmother Stereotype By Krista Stevens Highlight Leslie Jamison explores the fraught role of stand-in parent as she considers her new life as a stepmother to a six-year-old.
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