The Willamette River, a superfund site, was once Portland’s lifeblood. A massive cleanup project could restore it for the communities of color that had long relied on it for food, work, and leisure.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture
Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Kimberly, No Longer With the Good Hair
How one woman finally styled her hair in a way that determined who she was and demanded that her loving grandmother accept her decision as a sign of strength.
Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story, Technology
Research and Rescue: Saving Species from Ourselves
We’re developing high-tech genetic tools to pour new life into animals lost to human destruction. Deciding how — and whether — to use that power is as complex as the science behind it.
Posted inFeature
Whatever Happened to ______ ?
Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician
If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
Posted inNonfiction
The Criminalization of the American Midwife
New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial. For what? For doing her job. Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Doomed in Nashville
On a whirlwind book tour, Monica Drake fights to resist the pull of an emotional — and physical — abyss.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Doomed in Nashville
On a whirlwind book tour, Monica Drake fights to resist the pull of an emotional — and physical — abyss.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Science & Nature, Story
At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side
Solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction, demands radical optimism of its writers and readers. It takes the apocalypse as given, but doesn’t assume the worst of people living through it.
