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Letter from Manhattan 2
On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.
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Around The Pit
Circling billions of gallons of toxic water at America’s largest Superfund site.
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The Sabbath Stew
What started as a loophole has remained one of Judaism’s most evocative, redolent foods.
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‘Raphael Couldn’t Have Painted Something More Beautiful’
The couple who saved an imprisoned artist’s life — and the extraordinary gift he gave in return.
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Analyzing the ‘Bimbo’: A Reading List on Hollywood Blondes
The source of glamour, sex, and transgression? Or a carefully crafted persona? A closer look at the Hollywood blonde.
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Self Portrait as a Human Interest Story
Reflecting on the adversities and victories of her youth, Emi Nietfeld interrogates how narratives of resilience minimize suffering.
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Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number five slot in our weekly newsletter, in a handy digest.
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Plotting Out Structure and Writing Out Heroes: A Chat With the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue
In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Katia Savchuk and Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby about their work on “A Crime Beyond Belief.”
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Twelve Minutes and a Life
White people are allowed to go jogging. When Ahmaud Marquez Arbery did, he got lynched. “That Maud’s jogging made him the target of hegemonic white forces is a certain failure of America. Check the books—slave passes, vagrancy laws, Harvard’s Skip Gates arrested outside his own crib—Blacks ain’t never owned the same freedom of movement as […]
