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Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life
“Steve Edwards on Kathryn Schulz, Donald Hall, and the things we miss.”
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From Identity to Inspiration: A Reading List on Why We Run
Six thoughtful reads on why writers run.
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Tragedy in the Making: A Reading List About Unnatural Disasters
A list of stories that dig into the “ingredients” of recent natural hazard-related disasters.
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How to Save True Crime: A Reading List of Wrongful Conviction Stories
Stories about wrongful convictions open our eyes to systemic injustices in the U.S. court system. Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at The Marshall Project, compiles his recommended longreads within the genre.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Read a letter from Coretta Scott King and stories by Lizzie Presser, Kathryn Schulz, Michael Friscolanti, and Mitchell Sunderland.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Longreads Best of 2016: Food Writing
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in food writing.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, California Sunday, The Guardian, and The Atlantic.
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The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2016 Pulitzer Prizes winners have been announced.
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Into the Woods…With Mom’s Cookies: Kathryn Schulz on the Problem with Thoreau
Only by elastic measures can “Walden” be regarded as nonfiction. Read charitably, it is a kind of semi-fictional extended meditation featuring a character named Henry David Thoreau. Read less charitably, it is akin to those recent best-selling memoirs whose authors turn out to have fabricated large portions of their stories. It is widely acknowledged that, […]
