The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.
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One Thing After Another: A Reading List for Lovers & Makers of Lists
Five stories celebrating the power and beauty of lists.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Fiction, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
N.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’
Hells to the yes, says I.
Posted inStory
Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles
Here’s a selection of profiles that resonated with us this year.
Posted inFeature
The Depths to Which We Go
Making sense of absence in the ever-dissolving karst of Missouri.
Posted inReading List
Stranger Things: A Reading List of Unsolved Mysteries
Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.
Posted inStory
But Who Tells Them What To Sing?
“And thus another Hollywood tradition was born: film choruses belting out perfectly nonsensical prose with utter conviction.”
Posted inBooks
What Is Elizabeth Rush Reading? : Books on Antarctic Adventure, Ice, Motherhood
“I sometimes wonder if this continent of ice is begging for a different kind of story to be told about it.”
Posted inNonfiction
The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell
Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, History, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
Namwali Serpell on Doing the Responsible Thing — Writing an Irresponsible Novel
“I joke that this is the great Zambian novel you didn’t know you were waiting for.”
