A theory of superhero suffering and death.
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories
Stories that deserved more attention in 2015.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Revisiting the Vibrancy of Deaf Culture: A Reading List
Longreads to celebrate the vibrancy, history, and enduring presence of Deaf culture and its advocates.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Loneliness and Solitude: A Reading List
When I moved from a small town in Northern California to Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 2010, I felt the pang of an inarticulable loneliness. Unable to string together words to describe this complicated feeling, I found Olivia Laing’s Aeon essay, “Me, Myself and I,” to be a starting point that began to […]
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction
The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg
An intimate recollection of a Beat legend.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Murderer and the Manuscript
Alaric hunt is writing detective novels, while serving a life sentence for murder, arson, robbery and other charges: Alaric Hunt turned 44 in September. He last saw the outside world at 19. He works every day at the prison library in a maximum-security facility in Bishopville, S.C., passing out the same five magazines and newspapers […]
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A Dead Superhero Is a Marvelous Corpse
A theory of superhero suffering and death.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014
In 1964, science fiction author and biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov envisioned what life would be like in 2014: Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare “automeals,” heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so on. […]
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia.
