We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.
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Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician
If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
Posted inReading List
Revisiting the #MeToo Movement: A Reading List
#MeToo isn’t just a moment, it’s a movement. And there’s a lot of work yet to do.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
White Men On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The ruling minority of white men are getting nervous about impending destabilization of their power.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
To Compromise With the Facts of Living
In Elizabeth McCracken’s new novel “Bowlaway,” the past and future are mysteriously entangled.
Posted inNonfiction
Records on Bone
One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
Welcome to the New Transnational Paradigm
The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia
“The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Paul Kiel & Justin Elliot, Andy Greenberg, Mary Heglar, Katherine Miller, and Kyle Chayka.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Quotes, Unapologetic Women, Writing
Brit Bennett Reflects on Living the Past Year in “Trump Time”
How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”
