Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World
In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
Posted inCurrent Events, History, Nonfiction, Story
American Dolchstoss
The German “stab-in-the-back” myth springs back to life in America, this time through scapegoating over lost jobs.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List
Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
Posted inStory, Unapologetic Women
We’re All Mad Here: Weinstein, Women, and the Language of Lunacy
“He has demons.” The language of madness is the last resort for a society that can no longer deny the evidence of structural oppression and violence.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Reading List
We’re Living in the Golden Age of the Corporate Takedown
Why do we love reading about CEOs behaving badly? Perhaps it’s because we identify with their exhausted workers.
Posted inCurrent Events, Reading List, Unapologetic Women
Alexandra Petri Is The Only Op-Ed Columnist America Needs Right Now
She is the light in the darkness.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Horizon of Desire
Laurie Penny wants a new conversation about women, men, consent, desire, and autonomy.
Posted inBlog Post, Uncategorized
The ‘Anti-Helicopter Parent’ Is Just as Insufferable as the Helicopter Parent
But by trying to Make Childhood Great Again, this parent misses a critical point about why kids are overscheduled.
