A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.
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Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
Want Your Husband to Stay True? Kill a Hummingbird and Roll it in Oil and Honey
People are capturing and killing hummingbirds for cockamamie love potions, and Mexico doesn’t seem to care.
Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature
Death By Tchotchke
Plastic is everywhere: bottles, toys, cars, and, increasingly, in oceans and rivers so clogged with plastic that you can walk on them.
Posted inStory
My Spoon, Your Bullet
Alice Driver reports from the November protests against the Colombian government of President Iván Duque Márquez.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Monroe, Jianan Qian, Rene Ebersole, Adi Robertson, and Kyle Chayka.
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Travel
Home Is a Mug of Coffee
It takes a lot of percolating to become your own person.
Posted inNonfiction
Unearthing the Story: An Interview with Peter Hessler
The New Yorker writer describes his career’s circuitous route, from his start as a struggling fiction writer to becoming a China correspondent, and now the author of a new book about the Arab Spring.
Posted inEditor's Pick
For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It
In her introduction to National Geographic‘s “Race Issue,” Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg looks back on the ways in which the magazine’s coverage, since its inception in 1888, has participated in othering of people of color, and used racial slurs.
Posted inReading List
National Parks: A Reading List
Jacqueline Alnes considers the wealth, privilege, racism, and violence inherent in our relationships with U.S. National Parks.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Susan Goldberg, Leslie Jamison, Jacqueline Keeler, Max Genecov, and Ryan Bradley.
