In a new memoir, Sophia Shalmiyev attempts to reunite with her missing mother through scraps, signs, and surrogates.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
A House of Refuge Marred by Violence
The house at 808 East Lewis Street has helped the upwardly mobile reach for their dreams. It’s also seen great violence.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Harvard’s About-Face on Michelle Jones’s Acceptance
The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Brother’s Keeper
Sabine Heinlein tells the heartbreaking story of Terri Been, who has devoted years of her life to saving her brother’s after he was sentenced to death by the state of Texas almost two decades ago for a murder he definitively did not commit.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2018: Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.
Posted inNonfiction
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story
A Mysterious Crack Appears: Past Trauma and Future Doom Meet in “Friday Black”
In Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s fantastical short story collection, the strangest fantasy of all is that people try to act morally in a corrupt world.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Essays & Criticism
The Myth of Kevin Williamson
He’s not very good at his job.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards
What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals?
Posted inEditor's Pick
From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
A feature, produced in a collaboration between The New York Times and The Marshall Project, about Harvard University’s eleventh-hour flip-flop on its acceptance of ex-convict Michelle Jones to its doctoral program in history. Jones, who spent more than two decades in prison for the murder of her four-year-old son, conceived non-consensually when she was 14, […]
