If you underestimate a woman determined to avenge violence against her daughters, prepare yourself to get sacked. On repeat.
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This Month in Books: The Decameron Is Online
We can all quarantine alone, together, in one big villa in the cloud.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
Posted inNonfiction
Public Education’s White Flight Problem
More than 50 years after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, little has changed, and several groups are hoping to use policy and practice to fix this longstanding issue.
Posted inNonfiction
A Crying Public Shame
Dialogue, Twitter-style: you get called out on social media. People pile on to you. Other people pile on to the pile-oners. Soon everyone’s anxious or angry or both, no one’s really talking (or listening), and a few tech CEOs are buying new houses in Jackson Hole.
Posted inNonfiction
How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary?
Stumbling upon someone’s lost journal in a used book store leads Sophie Lucido Johnson down a path she couldn’t have expected.
Posted inBusiness, Culture, Food, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business
How America stacks the deck against black farmers.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.
Posted inNonfiction
Greenland’s Deepening Ecological Grief
“We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Guardians of Ghost Town
Longtime West Oakland resident Annette Miller has witnessed the dramatic transformation of the city as changes over the past few decades have swept the block she’s lived on for over 50 years.
