From Martin Luther to The Nutcracker, Germany’s original national nightmare was a tangled knot of writhing rats.
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We’re All Alabama Now
Alabama, it turns out, isn’t an American outlier after all.
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When Newspapers Cover the Private Lives of Nazis
Ordinary details can furnish a room, they can set a table, they can fill the time between hushed meetings of planned genocide.
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The Politics of UFOs
In the past few years the world of UFO “researchers” has been afflicted by the kinds of conspiratorial cracks that have appeared throughout American culture: Who can be trusted?
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The Case Against Christmas
Long after winter has ended, hating on Christmas remains popular sport, as much a holiday tradition as eggnog and overspending.
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Longreads Best of 2017: Food Writing
Our top reads this year in food writing.
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Exilium Vita Est: The Island Home of Victor Hugo
Emma Jacobs takes us on an illustrated journey of Hugo’s writing life in exile on Guernsey, where he completed Les Misérables.
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The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List
Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
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I’m Writing You from Tehran
A French-Iranian journalist writes a letter to her grandfather about the ten years she spent in Iran, trying to make sense of her identity and a country living very different public and private lives.
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Dispatch from Puerto Nowhere
Robert Lopez examines what it means to be an assimilated American from Puerto Rico, and what was gained and lost in the process.
