For the residents of Nucla, Colorado, the enemies are the liberals next door.
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Behind the Scenes of Children’s Television: A Reading List
These stories explore the art and economics of making television for kids.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Sports, Story
Tennis vs. Tennis
German tennis player Andrea Petkovic meets the band.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
An Oral History of Detroit Punk Rock
In Detroit’s empty buildings and troubled streets, restless kids squatted, ran punk clubs, pressed their own records, and made their own magazine. They mostly stayed out of trouble.
Posted inArts & Culture
Longreads Best of 2017: Food Writing
Our top reads this year in food writing.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me
Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the ‘bad stories’ he believes delivered our country to the Trump era.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Smooth Spaces, Fuzzy Lives
The border of Northern Ireland was one Rachel Andrews thought she could never cross. Then it began to dissolve.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Confessions of An Unredeemed Fan
Leslie Jamison remembers Amy Winehouse, who passed away nine years ago in Camden, London, at age 27.
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Harry Potter and the Long-Term Global Impact
J.K. Rowling’s first book was published 20 years ago today. Did it create better readers, or just more of them?
Posted inUnapologetic Women, Writing
Arundhati Roy Doesn’t Care What You Think
While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.
