A Woman’s Work: Till Death Do Us Part

In the fifth installment of her illustrated essay series, New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson considers the emotional and physical labor required of women as their loved ones die.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 28, 2019
Length: 25 minutes (6,450 words)

Book of Lamentations

In a collaboration between Longreads and Columbia University Journalism School’s The Delacorte Review, Michael Shapiro returns to Israel after 35 years to visit a grave and find a country.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 28, 2019
Length: 28 minutes (7,073 words)

Put down the self-help books. Resilience is not a DIY endeavour

Michael Ungar argues that people who can find the resources they require for success in their environments are far more likely to succeed than individuals with positive thoughts and the latest power poses.

Published: May 25, 2019
Length: 14 minutes (3,725 words)

Frenzied Woman

Cinelle Barnes considers how the chaos and discipline of dance kept the disparate parts of her being stitched together.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 25, 2019
Length: 15 minutes (3,929 words)

My Year on a Shrinking Island

Former baker Michael Mount explores the interplay of community, cookie dough and changing terrain on Martha’s Vineyard

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 25, 2019
Length: 24 minutes (6,236 words)

The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense of Time

A watch that tells time? How quaint! We don’t need watches any more; we have algorithms now.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Oct 24, 2019
Length: 15 minutes (3,857 words)

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

“Under the terms of an agreement with the federal government, Intuit and other commercial tax prep companies promised to provide free online filing to tens of millions of lower-income taxpayers. In exchange, the IRS pledged not to create a government-run system. Since Free File’s launch, Intuit has done everything it could to limit the program’s reach while making sure the government stuck to its end of the deal.”

Source: ProPublica
Published: Oct 17, 2019
Length: 27 minutes (6,848 words)

The impossible fight to save Jakarta, the sinking megacity

“Whether the city saves itself, or whether it becomes the first megacity lost to environmental catastrophe, will depend on a combination of ground-level social change and engineering works of unprecedented scale to hold back the tide.”

Source: Wired UK
Published: Oct 15, 2019
Length: 18 minutes (4,594 words)

Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty

“Dimitrov and Lasky [the Astro Poets] think of the signs formally, as ‘poetic constraints,’ and imagine them interacting like characters in a novel.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 21, 2019
Length: 21 minutes (5,488 words)

I’m 72. So What?

Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 23, 2019
Length: 21 minutes (5,425 words)