Highlighting stories by Melanie Challenger, Eve Livingston, M.R. O’Connor, Gordon Peake, and Blair Braverman.
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Inside a Kansas Clinic Where the Battle Over Abortion Is Still Raging
Kansas voted this week to save abortion, but the hardest work is yet to come. For her forthcoming book No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right, author Becca Andrews spent time at a reproductive health clinic with a tragic history: Trust Women is familiar with […]
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Making Meaning, One Step at a Time: A Conversation with Earl Swift
Strong pacing and flow gets your reader to the finish line. The author of Up On Cove Mountain explains why they’re so important.
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The Demon River
“On the one-year anniversary, a journalist recounts an extraordinary flood that laid waste to homes and lives—and the idea that we can control nature.”
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Eight Limes, No More: The Accidental Poetry of Found Lists
A found list is a rare analog window into someone else’s needs—an accidental autobiography, a blank space to be filled with one’s imagination.
Posted inNonfiction
Getting Up When You Fall From the Sky
“Fear coursed through my veins. A horrible metallic taste, worse than bile, rose in my throat. The taste of terror.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Megan Evershed, Mark Mann, Jaelani Turner-Williams, Minelle Mahtani, and Kim Cross.
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The People Who Know Too Much: A Reading List on Amateur Experts
The people whose private fixations become a way of seeing, remembering, and caring for the world.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Highlighting notable reads from Jasper Craven, Lisa Kaltenegger, Adam Iscoe, Lisa Abend, and Paul Schrodt.
Posted inNonfiction
The Twin Bandits
“The police couldn’t figure out how the perpetrator ripped off two banks at the same time. Until they discovered there wasn’t just one robber but a pair of them: identical twin brothers.”
