A Sand County Photograph

The intentions behind the Nazi salute photograph seen around the world were hardly as sinister as they first appeared. But in Trump and Twitter’s America, as one small Midwestern town discovered, image is everything.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Apr 2, 2019
Length: 30 minutes (7,700 words)

Here We Abandon All Destinations

“For a school of drag to have liberated itself from binary rigidity is no small thing. The variety and fluidity here hint at larger trends within the art form, and have implications that reverberate beyond the drag world, too.”

Published: Mar 28, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,267 words)

Smoked Out

A writer moves to a new town and finds himself living the environmental story in the books he’d agreed to review.

Published: Feb 1, 2019
Length: 17 minutes (4,306 words)

‘People Outside This Community Know About Us Because of One Moment in Time.’

The community of Columbine has rebuilt and redefined itself over the past 20 years since the high school massacre.

Source: 5280 Magazine
Published: Apr 1, 2019
Length: 12 minutes (3,216 words)

Unleashed in Paris

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 3, 2019
Length: 6 minutes (1,663 words)

Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Martinique to Merveilleuse

Even the Reign of Terror was no match for a determined young woman with a pug and a prophecy on her side.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 28, 2019
Length: 22 minutes (5,569 words)

Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre

Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 3, 2019
Length: 28 minutes (7,237 words)

YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant

Why confront rot when you can monetize the rot instead?

Source: Bloomberg
Published: Apr 2, 2019
Length: 14 minutes (3,723 words)

Don’t Let It ‘Go’ Away: The Frantic, Furious Making of a Cult Movie Classic

Twenty years after its release, director Doug Liman, screenwriter John August, and others recall the production of their 1999 indie film Go.

Source: The Ringer
Published: Mar 29, 2019
Length: 19 minutes (4,959 words)

How I Bombed My First Therapy Session

Everybody has a first day on the job and sometimes that day doesn’t go as planned. Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb recounts the first session she conducted as a trainee therapist, with a woman who sobbed uncontrollably during their allotted hour.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Apr 2, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,380 words)