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.
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.
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.
Frenzied Woman
Cinelle Barnes considers how the chaos and discipline of dance kept the disparate parts of her being stitched together.
My Year on a Shrinking Island
Former baker Michael Mount explores the interplay of community, cookie dough and changing terrain on Martha’s Vineyard
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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