In a tiny, remote Utah town, Lavinia Spalding learns the difference between longing and belonging.
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Keepers of the Secrets
Who are the most interesting women and men in the world? The archivists, guardians of our forgotten stories.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rana Dasgupta, Whitney Joiner, Jesse Barron, Kiese Laymon, and David Roth.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Guy Gunaratne on the ‘Push-Pull of Ancestry and Meaning’ in London
Guy Gunaratne’s Man Booker-longlisted “In Our Mad and Furious City” recognizes multiple, overlapping versions of London and its inhabitants, examining the ways violence can bubble up through the city’s fissures.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Summer
Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Science & Nature, Story
The Weather and the Wall
Climate change and the border wall are more connected than you might think.
Posted inNonfiction
MACHO: On Black Holes, and the Fantasies of Men
Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.
Posted inNonfiction
Other Rachel Lyons
Having a fairly common name gives Rachel Lyon occasional glimpses into the lives of her doppelgangers — and the roads she has not taken.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Ladies Who Were Famous for Wanting to Be Left Alone
The Ladies of Llangollen fell in love, ran away together, and lived a scholarly life of “delicious seclusion” — secluded, that is, except for all the visitors.
