Henry Taylor’s Wild Heart Can’t Be Broken

Essayist Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah profiles the figurative painter Henry Taylor.

Source: Vulture
Published: Jun 28, 2018
Length: 31 minutes (7,897 words)

How to Be Single

In this personal essay, Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 2, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,799 words)

Adrian Piper’s Show at MoMA is the Largest Ever for a Living Artist. Why Hasn’t She Seen It?

Thomas Chatterton Williams profiles the conceptual artist and philosopher Adrian Piper.

Published: Jun 27, 2018
Length: 32 minutes (8,238 words)

The New Startup South

Greenville, South Carolina has discovered a way to revitalize its postindustrial spaces: by incubating start-ups and joining the knowledge economy. Can other mid-size Southern cities do the same?

Published: Jun 21, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,800 words)

The Jackie Robinson of Rodeo

Christian Wallace profiles Myrtis Dightman, the first black cowboy to qualify for the Professional Rodeo Association National Finals.

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Jun 22, 2018
Length: 35 minutes (8,866 words)

Writing With And Through Pain

Sonya Huber explores how pain and chronic illness has shaped her and her writing process.

Source: LitHub
Published: Jun 25, 2018
Length: 6 minutes (1,557 words)

After the Fall

It’s been 10 years since the 2008 financial crisis and we’re still living with the fallout: financial institutions have seen few major regulatory changes, the poor and middle class have carried the burden of austerity measures and have responded with a sharp rise in populism, and life expectancy has stagnated.

Published: Jun 27, 2018
Length: 30 minutes (7,694 words)

The Fred Rogers We Know

Soraya Roberts mines the CBC archives to view the first images of Fred Rogers on television in 1963 — hosting Misterogers, a fifteen-minute black-and-white children’s program made in Canada — to get a deeper sense of the man who made it ok for people to be valued and loved, exactly as they are.

Source: Hazlitt
Published: Jun 26, 2018
Length: 14 minutes (3,537 words)

In Public Housing, a Cannabis Catch-22

Federal law conflicts with local regulations about medical cannabis. For the many low-income and disabled Americans who rely on federally subsidized housing, this conflict means that, if they use medical cannabis to treat a condition, they can get evicted from their Section 8 housing.

Source: Cannabis Wire
Published: Jun 25, 2018
Length: 8 minutes (2,051 words)

The Travel Ban Decision and the Ghost of Korematsu

What does it mean, in the face of profound ugliness on the part of the executive branch, to declare the judgment of that ugliness to have “no place in law”?

Source: Lawfare
Published: Jun 28, 2018
Length: 8 minutes (2,108 words)