Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.
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Searching for the Mountaintop in Upstate New York
A family confronts its racial past along the Appalachian Trail.
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The Hare Krishnas of Coal Country
The world is full of make-believe. Some of it is sweet, some of it is sick. It persists because we have found no other antidote for pain.
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Longreads Needs Your Support to Raise $50K During Our Winter 2020 Member Drive
Longreads is pushing to achieve long-term sustainability, and reader support is more critical than ever.
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Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race
Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.
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Down the Rabbit Hole: A Psychedelic Reading List
The science, the strangeness, the promise, of psychedelic journeys.
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The Endgame of the Olympics
What if the Olympic Games never come back?
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Motherhood on the Line
Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Find Yourself
From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.
