Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?
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Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses
Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Sun Never Sets on Oppression and Dominance, or Why You’re More Aztec Than You Think
Aztec priests ripped out people’s hearts daily as a sacrifice to the sun, and for Sam Kriss, the contemporary West might be a lot more like them that we think.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Media
‘Vanity Fair’ Just Published Their Burn Book for Jared and Ivanka
They seem to disappear when bad things are happening. And bad things are always happening.
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Longreads Best of 2017: Food Writing
Our top reads this year in food writing.
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Two-And-a-Half Minutes to Midnight: Our Fear of Nukes and How We Got Here
Our fear of nuclear conflict has more to do with Iron Man and Godzilla than it does Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
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In Tbilisi
An excerpt from “A Trip to Tbilisi,” a 2015 work of graphic reportage from journalist, activist, and artist Victoria Lomasko’s visit to the Georgian capital. Her work, drawn live on the scene, focuses on figures on the fringes: migrants, the LGBT community, juvenile prison inmates, sex workers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘Every Watch Geek Has an Origin Story’
Anxious about politics, Gary Shteyngart finds calm in the minutiae of wristwatches in this essay from The New Yorker.
