Author Sorayya Khan on what it means to grow up between two cultures, and on mothering and being mothered in a global world.
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Borstal Boys
“A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.”
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‘Did Something Happen to Mom When She Was Young?’
“The hidden history of the Cold War adoption complex.”
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Balthazar, 1997
“The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring standout reads from Ian Urbina, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sallie Tisdale, Brad Rassler, and Adam Reiner.
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I Lost My Son to Addiction. No, Privilege Didn’t Protect Him
“He had a loving family, financial support, and the best treatment. He fell victim to an overdose anyway.”
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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
“Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.”
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My Best Friend’s Murder Was a Tabloid Circus. Now, I’m Looking for the Truth.
“When Nicole DuFresne was killed in New York in 2005, the media twisted the narrative by latching onto a phrase that fell out of her mouth: ‘What are you going to do, shoot us?'”
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Matthew Perry’s Radical Honesty About His Addiction Battle Helped Us All
“But he did get sober. By the time his book came out almost exactly a year ago, he’d been clean 18 months.”
