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Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women
Waiting for Mental Health Care
Patients do ask for help with their mental health. And then they wait.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Where Even Walmart Won’t Go: How Dollar General Took Over Rural America
In small towns across Kansas, residents and community leaders grapple with the increasingly ubiquitous presence of America’s fastest-growing retailer.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Out There: On Not Finishing
What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Symbiotics of Harvesting Eider Down
“There is an irresistible simplicity to the relationship between the harvesters and the eiders.”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How Amazon Exploits Chinese Workers to Crank Out Its Products
How Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, exploits Chinese workers to manufacture Kindles and smart speakers.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Hamburger, William Finnegan, Cecilie Maria Kallestrup and Katrine Jo Anderson, Hannah Jane Parkinson, and Amy Westervelt.
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Arundhati Roy: “Fiction is a Universe”
Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is the embodiment of concept that the personal is political, even (especially?) in her fiction.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Highlight, Story
In Absentia
A meditation on the nature of grief, at a time when the whole world seems to be grieving.
