The Stelton colony, initially associated with the likes of Emma Goldman and Eugene O’Neill, was a radical suburb whose anarchist residents took the commuter train to New York.
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Who Even Watches the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Anymore?
Three million women tuned in last year. Here’s why.
Posted inArts & Culture, Discussions, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
The Writers’ Roundtable: Fiction vs. Nonfiction
A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
Alexa de Paris
Miles Marshall Lewis remembers a love of Prince and Paris.
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Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives
The more work that journalists create for the internet, the more work is rendered obsolete.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Memoirs of a Used Car Salesman’s Daughter
Hearses, limousines, Detroit’s newest model — cars marked many milestones in Nancy Nichols’ life of heartache and family deception.
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez
In the story of one Mexican-American woman’s life, we can see the whole tragic story of the US-Mexico border’s transformation from a simple chain-link fence to a humanitarian crisis.
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Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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The Day New York Rose Up Against the Nazis On the Hudson
In 1935, a group of New York communists boarded a German luxury liner during a lavish sending-off party attended by celebrities, Rockefellers, and Roosevelts. Their goal: capture the swastika.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Susan Chira and Catrin Einhorn, John Branch, Amanda Mull, Mimi O’Donnell and Adam Green, and Mansi Choksi.
