Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.
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I Will Outlive My Cat: A Reading List on Pet Death
Alison Fishburn shares seven longreads on how humans experience the death of their pets.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Big Unsolved Mystery of Little Marjorie West
The unsolved mystery of a 1938 kidnapping continues to befuddle in Pennsylvania.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from David Dayen, M.H. Miller, T. Cooper, Caren Lissner, and Michael Adno.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game: A Baseball Reading List
Jacqueline Alnes mines personal memory as she examines baseball’s culture, its hidden histories, and the gender and disparities in the game today.
Posted inHighlight, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
How American Women’s Pro Baseball Kept Lesbians in the Closet
“Play like a man, look like a lady.” At Narratively, Britni de la Cretaz looks at the history of lesbianism in early pro women’s baseball and at the beautiful love stories that the movie “A League of Their Own” chose to ignore.
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Feeding Our Kids, In Fatness and in Health
If struggling parents feed their kids KFC, is it nutritional neglect or love?
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To Reflect, To Love, and To Protest: A Pride Month Reading List
A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.
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Going the Distance: A Reading List on Running
Six stories about running and the human drive to push through pain.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jennifer Gonnerman, Evan Allen, Britni de la Cretaz, Jen Banbury, and Gordon Edgar.
