In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
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George Washington Lived in an Indian World, But His Biographies Have Erased Native People
Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Highway Robbery: How the Port Trucking Industry is Rigged Against Drivers
On how port truckers are the victims of heinous labor practices.
Posted inBooks, Story
Angrily Experiencing the Best Days of Our Lives
Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.
Posted inUncategorized
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2017
The personal essays, original reporting, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Shot in the Arm
Why would a tenure-track professor find himself selling his plasma to make rent? A story about debt in the academic world.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Life on the Oil Frontier
What it was like living in one of America’s most patriarchal societies.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Motherless Daughter, Mothering
An unexpected pregnancy not long after her troubled mother’s passing forces Ashley Abramson to navigate a kind of dual citizenship she couldn’t have anticipated.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Motherless Daughter, Mothering
An unexpected pregnancy not long after her troubled mother’s passing forces Ashley Abramson to navigate a kind of dual citizenship she couldn’t have anticipated.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction
Seeking a Roadmap for the New American Middle Class
Could Starbucks become the new General Motors? Or could the American worker make it even better?
