Roxane Gay tapped 24 writers to address what it’s like to live in an “unruly” body today.
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Let Me Show You the World
Almost everything you think you know about Aladdin is wrong.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahawa Haile; Hannah Dreier; Rukmini Callimachi; Mary Anne Mohanraj, Keah Brown, S. Bear Bergman, Matthew Salesses, and Kiese Laymon; and Molly Fitzpatrick.
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Maybe Beauty Doesn’t Have to Mean Pain
Little girls flock to ballet classes, but the art isn’t kind to their bodies, autonomy, or sense of self. What has to change?
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You Don’t Move to Sarasota, the Spirit Moves You
“In Sarasota, there is a community surrounding a litany of roadside psychics and more than 100 mediums and spiritual guides. Why?”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
Climate Messaging: A Case for Negativity
Nell Zink, Joy Williams, and a different kind of climate skepticism.
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‘The Underland Is a Deeply Human Realm’: Getting Down with Robert Macfarlane
“I thought the underland would be — of all the landscape forms that have drawn me to explore them — the most uninhabited. This proved wildly incorrect.”
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How the Guardian Went Digital
Remaking itself from a little leftie newspaper to a powerhouse of internet journalism required experimentation, transparency, and embracing uncertainty.
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The Uncanny Valley of Online Dating
Dating after a Big Love ends never feels quite right. What do big loves leave us with, and what do they take?
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‘TV Has This Really Fraught Relationship with the Audience.’
Emily Nussbaum talks about why TV’s relationship with its audience has become more intimate, whether we can blame Trump on True Detective, and how a TV critic’s biggest challenge is just figuring out what to watch.
