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Who Is Christopher Wray, Trump’s Nominee for FBI Director?
To begin with, he’s someone who believes the ideal FBI director is “tough but fair and unfailingly honest.”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Reading List
We’re Living in the Golden Age of the Corporate Takedown
Why do we love reading about CEOs behaving badly? Perhaps it’s because we identify with their exhausted workers.
Posted inNonfiction
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Writing the Monsignor
Mary O’Connell recalls her college efforts to write about a scandalized priest from her youth.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story, Uncategorized
The Month of Giving Dangerously
Elizabeth Greenwood decides to give everything: time, money, praise, forgiveness. But when does generosity become a mania for giving?
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World
In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Date with Hollywood
Monica Drake recalls a brush with fame, when a famous actress took an interest in making a movie from her novel.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton
Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.
Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized
My Favorite Animal Longreads of 2016
In November 2015, I adopted a dog. Harley. These 12 pounds of mostly shelter-raised animal cracked open the harder parts of my heart and I found myself sobbing into my coffee, almost daily, while reading the latest stories about rescue dogs. I’d gone so far as to set a Google Alert on “rescue dog,” and […]
