In my native New York, I don’t feel the need to perfume the air around me with the sweet scent of challah. But here in Iowa, there is a void I need to fill.
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End the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
It’s an embarrassment to journalism.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story, Unapologetic Women
Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre
Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Killer Who Spared My Mother
In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Killer Who Spared My Mother
In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.
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Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
Posted inArts & Culture, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
An Interview with ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Author André Aciman
The author on his writing process and what it was like to watch a film based on one of his books.
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Longreads Best of 2016: Here Are All of Our No. 1 Story Picks from This Year
All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2016. To get you ready, here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
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The White House Looks for Work
The White House Looks for Work At the center was Summers, a larger-than-life figure who by many accounts was ill suited to run a bureaucratic process. To some of his colleagues, Summers was an eye-rolling intellectual bully. “He’s much better at telling you why you’re stupid than creating a system that can produce usable policy […]
