Full Disclosure: A Reading List About Confessions

In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.

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Published: Oct 10, 2016

The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters

How “vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.

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Published: Oct 6, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,795 words)

The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List

Six stories about notebooks and note-taking from David Sax, Belle Boggs, Joan Didion, and more.

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Published: Oct 3, 2016

A Reading List About Utopias

Here are five stories about utopian societies.

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Published: Sep 27, 2016

Ruback

A newspaper journalist’s attempt to correct the record.

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Published: Sep 27, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4,136 words)

Dancing Naked in Public

A conversation on art with critic Jerry Saltz.

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Published: Sep 26, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4,104 words)

We Need to Talk About Money: Seven Stories About Personal Finance

Honest discussions about income, rent, budgets, taxes—all that stuff—force us to reckon with our privilege. For so long, conversations about money were considered gauche. With every essay and podcast episode, that taboo is broken down.

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Published: Sep 20, 2016

STAT

Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?

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Published: Sep 14, 2016
Length: 40 minutes (10,049 words)

Girlhood Gone: Notes from the New Nashville

After returning home to Nashville following many years away, Susannah Felts assesses the city’s changing face through the eyes of a native, and as a woman raised in the South.

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Published: Sep 13, 2016
Length: 17 minutes (4,439 words)

All Hail the Queen: Five Stories About Pageants

In this list, you’ll find stories about drag royalty, the price of the perfect Western wardrobe, the perils of butt glue, and more.

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Published: Sep 11, 2016