Dur e Aziz Amna considers the year in Pakistan when everything changed.
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Working Through the Apocalypse: An Interview with Ling Ma
In Ling Ma’s “Severance” — a novel she began to write after getting laid off, while living partly on severance pay — the characters keep going to work, even though they know it’s the end of the world.
Steve Bannon’s Plan to Make America Great Again—With or Without Trump
Banished from the White House, Bannon spends his time building a conservative alliance behind a vague, protectionist platform he calls economic nationalism, which would seal US borders, treat China as an enemy and, he believes, keep the Republicans in power for decades. But can he sell this all to the working class?
A Place to Stay, Untouched by Death
After her mother’s passing, Jane Ratcliffe considers the role everyday objects play in a good death.
A Place to Stay, Untouched by Death
After her mother’s passing, Jane Ratcliffe considers the role everyday objects play in a good death.
Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie
Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me
“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Ronan Farrow, Diana Nyad, Rachel Monroe, Ross Andersen, and Teresa Mathew.
They’re Good Mangoes, Mao
The fruit took on cult status in China after Mao gifted his workers a box of mangoes sent from Pakistan.

