MAWA! The Christian Alt-Right Wants to Make America White Again By Michelle Weber Highlight Sarah Posner introduces some of the main players in “alt-right Christianity” in her exploration of American Evangelicals’ embrace of Trump.
On Being Trans, Disabled and Using the Washroom: ‘I have a right to exist safely in public spaces.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Christian McMahon so rightly reminds us that everyone has “a right to exist safely in public spaces.”
Searching for the Lost on Public Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At Outside, the disappearance of a teenage runner in Colorado brings up the question: Who searches for the people who disappear on American public lands?
Who’s Been Seeding the Alt-Right? Follow the Money to Robert Mercer By Michelle Weber Highlight Jane Mayer profiles hedge fund manager, alt-right supporter, political funder, and Ayn Rand-wannabe Robert Mercer in the New Yorker.
Literature by the Numbers By Jessica Gross Feature Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
Am I in an Abusive Relationship? ‘I knew if I had to ask I already knew the answer.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Katherine Laidlaw recalls an abusive relationship in which her boyfriend threatened her with a boxcutter.
Robert B. Silvers, Editor of The New York Review of Books: 1929-2017 By Mark Armstrong Commentary “I believe in the writer—the writer, above all.”
Don’t Fear the Painter, or the Tyranny of Whiteness By Michelle Weber Highlight In Chromophobia, David Batchelor explores color theory and argues for the West’s historical fear of color.
‘Happy 1396’: Porochista Khakpour on Feeling Apprehensive this Nowruz, the Persian New Year By Sari Botton Highlight “This year, once Nowruz announced itself to me, I wanted to forget it.”
‘You Can Help in Ways That I Cannot’: Ijeoma Oluo on Putting Your White Privilege to Work Against Racism By Sari Botton Highlight A manifesto of the anti-racist movement for white people and others who are just joining.
How a Story Becomes a ‘Hopeful Thing’: George Saunders on His Writing Process By Krista Stevens Highlight At the Guardian, the author recounts how it takes “hundreds of drafts” and “thousands of incremental adjustments” to form a story into a “hopeful thing.”
How Jazz Singer Baby Esther Jones Became Betty Boop By Krista Stevens Highlight Gabrielle Bellot explores the original inspiration for Betty Boop—a black jazz singer with an iconic style and voice.
There Are Reasons We Can’t Handle the Truth By Michelle Weber Highlight Julie Beck digs deep into news silos, alternative facts, and cognitive dissonance.
A Small Town Crushed By a Big Weight — the Military-Industrial Complex By Michelle Weber Highlight This meticulously-reported piece explores the bungled investigation into a 1994 double murder in Oak Grove, Kentucky, a small town weighed down by the military-industrial complex.
Not Giving Up on the Dream By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In the Los Angeles Times, Jeffrey Fleishman profiles two young Angelenos trying not to break down as they try to break into show business.
Before the Avon Lady, There Were a Bunch of Monks With a Bottle of Vinegar By Michelle Weber Highlight Meet the lifestyle and wellness hawkers of 13th century Italy: the Monks of Santa Maria Novella.
The Roots of Cowboy Music: ‘This Is the Music We Made. This Is the Land We Made.’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Commentary Oakland writer Carvell Wallace travels to Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and reflects on what it means to be black and American.
The Grim Reaper of Pubs By Matt Giles Commentary Tom Lamont’s exhaustive 2015 deep-dive on the death of pub culture in England is worth re-reading, considering the role a bar plays within a community.
27 Years and 1,000 Break-Ins: North Pond Hermit — Book Edition By Krista Stevens Commentary An excerpt from The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit — Michael Finkel’s book on Christopher Knight, the hermit who survived by committing 1,000 break-ins over nearly three decades.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories by Sam Knight, Rick Perlstein, Ijeoma Oluo, Keziah Weir, and George Saunders.
A Nuclear Bomb at Ground Zero, and What Happens Next By Krista Stevens Highlight At the Atlantic, two researchers discuss their study of how humans might respond after a nuclear attack on Manhattan.
The Midwestern Birthplace of March Madness By Matt Giles Commentary At ESPN, the surprising marketing history behind the phrase, and the phenomenon, of March Madness.
Rachel Cusk on Eschewing her ‘Cuskness’ For Her Alter-Ego in ‘Outline’ and ‘Transit’ By Sari Botton Highlight Rachel Cusk talks to Heidi Julavits about the “trench” she digs between herself and representations of herself, in both memoir and “autofiction.”
I’d Gladly Pay You Tomorrow For a Hamburger Today, If Only My Debit Card Weren’t Frozen By Michelle Weber Highlight Ubiquitous digital payments: harbinger of a glorious future, or smokescreen for powerful interests that want to control (and undermine) choice and capitalism?
‘The Stakes May Be the Survival of Civilization’ By Michelle Legro Feature The first report from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966 was a passionate defense of the government’s role in the arts.
A March Madness Reading List, with Music By Céline Dion By Matt Giles Reading List @TitanicHoops is your must-follow Twitter feed for this year’s tourney.
Enormous Changes… Arrived at Slowly, Over a the Course of a Politically Engaged Lifetime By Sari Botton Highlight On the persistent, patient activism of late author Grace Paley and her recurring character, Faith Darwin Asbury.
A Heart-Shaped Life: Twelve Ways of Looking at Amy Krouse Rosenthal By Amy Shearn Weekly Top 5 The author, speaker, and performance artist was far more than her final, heartbreaking Modern Love column.
I’m on a Boat, Y’all! (With Canada’s Hyper-Conservatives) By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In The Walrus, Peter Norman boats for a week with followers of Canada’s fear-mongering conspiratorial conservative, Ezra Levant.
Filmmaker Kyrre Lien Traveled the World Interviewing Internet Trolls in Person By Krista Stevens Highlight Filmmaker Kyrre Lien was curious about what drives people who make hateful comments online, so he traveled the world to interview internet trolls in person.
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