The things Emily is reading to help her with her 2016 resolutions for reading, writing, and traveling.
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The Icy Elegance of Arthur Ashe … And the Passion of Muhammad Ali
The sportsmen’s lives read as a conversation on what it means to be American.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Devil Gives You the First Time for Free
Mike Sager’s 2005 Esquire interview with Scott Weiland.
Posted inFirst Chapters, Story
Wrestling With the Truth
A 1992 murder of a young boy unravels a journalist’s dark family secrets.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Weed Reads: A Reading List About Marijuana
A reading list of eight stories on marijuana.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Icy Elegance of Arthur Ashe … And the Passion of Muhammad Ali
The sportsmen’s lives read as a conversation on what it means to be American.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews
The Trick to It All: A Conversation with Photographer Henry Leutwyler
Henry Leutwyler on portraiture and the magic of inanimate objects.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
C.J. Chivers’ Particular Brand of War Journalism
The Times hired Chivers at age thirty-four in 1999 to cover war. That was the handshake, he says. A former Marine officer, he might know how to handle himself in a war zone, the paper figured. What the Times could not have known was that Chivers would develop a brand of journalism unique in the world for, among other […]
Posted inAuthor Notes, Blog Post, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews
How to Report on the Life of a 13-Year-Old
There must be few journalistic feats more difficult than getting inside the head of a teenager. But with “13, Right Now,” Washington Post staff writer Jessica Contrera joins the ranks of reporters who have skillfully chronicled the lives of children and teens, including Susan Orlean (read her classic Esquire piece, “The American Man, Age 10”) and more […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Reading Lolita in Patriarchy: Rebecca Solnit on Being Mansplained About How She Must Have Misread Nabokov
“It isn’t a fact universally acknowledged that a person who mistakes his opinions for facts may also mistake himself for God.”
