This Is the Internet We Were Promised

“The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?”

Source: The Walrus
Published: Apr 29, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,754 words)

Fear of Suffering Alone

After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 4, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,136 words)

We Can’t Afford to Lose the Postal Service

Coronavirus is helping GOP leaders achieve a long-held goal: killing the U.S.P.S., where writer Casey Cep’s mother has been a rural letter carrier for the last 38 years.

Author: Casey Cep
Source: The New Yorker
Published: May 2, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,722 words)

“Queens Get the Money”: The Story of Mobb Deep’s ‘The Infamous’ at 25

Paul Thompson, a deft and versatile writer, delivers an engrossing and utterly entertaining profile of Mobb Deep’s The Infamous, the 25-year old album that would vault rappers Prodigy and Havoc — one a Queensbridge native, the other a NYC nomad — into the stratosphere of rap amid the Big Apple’s glory days holding the mic.

Source: The Ringer
Published: Apr 24, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,343 words)

Following the North Star

Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 1, 2020
Length: 18 minutes (4,587 words)

Inside the Nightmare Voyage of the Diamond Princess

“At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, one ill-fated cruise ship became a symbol for the panic and confusion that would soon engulf the globe. Doug Bock Clark uncovers what two harrowing weeks trapped aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’ felt like—for unsuspecting tourists, for frightened crew members, even for the captain himself.”

Source: GQ
Published: Apr 30, 2020
Length: 34 minutes (8,638 words)

The Bard

A freak accident and a circus hypnotist helped Aleksander Kulisiewicz develop a remarkable power of memory. At 21, imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, he began mentally archiving the music he heard men singing. To save the songs of the Holocaust, he first had to save himself.

Source: The Atavist
Published: Apr 30, 2020
Length: 33 minutes (8,400 words)

Blood on the Green

The deadly episode at Kent State stood for a bitterly divided era. Did America ever leave it?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 27, 2020
Length: 18 minutes (4,654 words)

Productivity is Not Working

” Despite being various flavors of neurotic workaholic, my roommates and I have discovered that right now, while our personal productivity matters, what matters more immediately is that we all manage to live in the same house without killing each other.”

Source: Wired
Published: Apr 17, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,792 words)

The Coronavirus Cruise

“They came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus.”

Source: 1843
Published: Apr 23, 2020
Length: 21 minutes (5,266 words)