In this personal essay, created with support from the non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Stephanie Land chronicles her struggle to support herself and her two daughters while attending college and trying to make a living as a writer.
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When Lips Speak for Themselves: A Reading List on Red Lipstick
Red lipstick is more than a cosmetic. In this reading list, Alison Fishburn explores its power.
Posted inBlog Post, Books, Commentary
Get With the Modern Age, Sign Up for the Longreads Books Newsletter
Sign up for the Longreads Books Newsletter, and you too could be never not reading a book.
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids
Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it’s a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
“We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
And They Do Not Stop Until Dusk
I’ve never known what it means to feel Jewish, but I still have a past — I have György Román, who painted dreams and saw nightmares.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month in Books: ‘How Do We Stay the Right Distance Apart?’
At first glance, there’s a pretty stark divide in this month’s books newsletter.
Posted inReading List
On Being an Ill Woman: A Reading List of Doctors’ Dismissal and Disbelief
Eight stories of being ill and being dismissed by the medical establishment.
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Alternative Reality: ‘Howard Buffett’s Border War’
Redlining, immersive sound installations, a hidden mural and more in this edition of Alternative Reality.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness
Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.
