Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar

Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 28, 2018
Length: 20 minutes (5,019 words)

The Last Resort

Private clinics in Germany sell cancer patients hope — and mixed results — at exorbitant prices.

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Published: Mar 22, 2018
Length: 23 minutes (5,754 words)

Welcome to the Center of the Universe

For the men and women who use the Deep Space Network to talk to the heavens, failure is not an option.

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Published: Mar 15, 2018
Length: 22 minutes (5,546 words)

Seeking a Roadmap for the New American Middle Class

Could Starbucks be the new GM? Or could the American worker make it even better?

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Published: Mar 21, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,950 words)

Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals

In this moving lyric essay on grief, pain, and the body’s frailty, Ellen Wayland-Smith recalls, with heart-wrenching intimacy, how bodies have failed and fallen in her own life, and reflects on various literary and historical reckonings with the finality of death and the inevitability of the fall.

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Published: Mar 21, 2018
Length: 16 minutes (4,127 words)

‘Forgive Yourself. And Forgive Me.’

A personal essay in which reporter Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.

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Published: Mar 19, 2018
Length: 10 minutes (2,574 words)

The Friend That Got Away

A personal essay in which Beverly Donofrio looks back on a friendship she hadn’t expected to make — or to lose.

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Published: Mar 16, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,860 words)

The Man in the Mirror

In this personal essay, in the aftermath of rape, Alison Kinney discovers that a new lover who helps you to heal can just as easily betray you.

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Published: Mar 9, 2018
Length: 16 minutes (4,156 words)

“Hey, Can I Sleep In Your Room?”: Studying Love with Elizabeth Flock

An interview with Elizabeth Flock, author of The Heart Is a Shifting Sea, on the years she spent studying other people’s marriages in Mumbai.

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Published: Mar 8, 2018
Length: 16 minutes (4,156 words)

The Billionaire Philanthropist

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Published: Mar 13, 2018
Length: 9 minutes (2,268 words)