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Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .
Everyone waits. No one is spared the waiting room, one way or another. Seven stories on an essential human condition.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Hannah Dreier, Jeremy Miller, Katherine LaGrave, Wes Ferguson, and Omar Mouallem.
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What Is a Body For?
One desire felt like it would make me more of who I already was, and the other would unmake me entirely.
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‘I Promise You, You Have Your Soul.’
Three mothers, one struggle: saving their children with schizophrenia.
Posted inNonfiction
Holiday Gift Guide: 8 Books We Excerpted on Longreads in 2021
A short list of books we loved (and featured) this year.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘Just Another Indian’: Surviving Canada’s Residential Schools
“Alsena says she never felt love at the school. In fact, she never felt human. Until she was 13 years old, she was known by the number 11. From the age of 13 to 16, she was number 39.”
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Working on the Edge: A Reading List About Extreme Jobs
A livelihood is not a life—yet many risk the latter in order to create the former.
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Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline
Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.
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Genetic Mapping
“Here’s what I know for sure: I have three fathers who love me. One is my true dad—the man who raised me and has always told me ‘the more people who love you the better.’ One has the softest heart and shares my experience of being adopted. And one feels like a soulmate even though […]
