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Posted inBooks, Commentary, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Science Fiction, Travel

What Is Elizabeth Rush Reading? : Books on Antarctic Adventure, Ice, Motherhood

by Dana Snitzky July 8, 2019October 19, 2022

“I sometimes wonder if this continent of ice is begging for a different kind of story to be told about it.”

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science Fiction

The Great Cannabis Experiment: Ian Brown on Growing Your Own Weed

by Krista Stevens May 27, 2019October 19, 2022

Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.

Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Story

The Politics of UFOs

by Anna Merlan April 11, 2019October 19, 2022

In the past few years the world of UFO “researchers” has been afflicted by the kinds of conspiratorial cracks that have appeared throughout American culture: Who can be trusted?

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science Fiction, Story, Writing

‘Every Woman Writer Feels Like She’s Starting Over Without Any Guides’

by Zan Romanoff February 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Ann Leckie talks about “The Raven Tower,” the erasure of women writers from the canon, the privilege inherent to ‘the anxiety of influence,’ and the power of tradition.

Posted inCrime, Highlight, Quotes, Science Fiction

This Heist’s for the Birds

by michelleweber January 15, 2019October 19, 2022

“I always say, If there is a $50,000 bill flying around, someone is going to try to catch it.”

Posted inReading List

Longreads Best of 2018: Science and Technology

by Longreads December 13, 2018October 19, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in science and tech.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Story

Dawn of Dianetics: L. Ron Hubbard, John W. Campbell, and the Origins of Scientology

by nevalalee October 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Read an excerpt adapted from Alec Nevala-Lee’s book, Astounding.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science Fiction, Story, Uncategorized

Putting a New Stone on the Grave: Sjón Brings the Golem to Iceland

by Adam Morgan September 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Sjón’s “CoDex 1962” is the fulfillment of a pact he made with the Maharal of Prague in the Old Jewish Cemetery almost three decades ago.

Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Science Fiction, Story

Working Through the Apocalypse: An Interview with Ling Ma

by Ryan Chapman August 28, 2018October 19, 2022

In Ling Ma’s “Severance” — a novel she began to write after getting laid off, while living partly on severance pay — the characters keep going to work, even though they know it’s the end of the world.

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