At The New Republic, novelist Alexander Chee has an essay/review of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, Ferrante’s new book of selected letters and interviews spanning nearly two-and-a-half decades.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Here are the stories we loved this week. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary Rachel Aviv | The New Yorker | Jan 16, 2017 | 45 minutes (11,296 words) A profile of Albert Woodfox, a man originally sentenced to 50 years […]
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The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners
This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.
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Did the Modern Novel Kill Charles Bovary?
Jean Améry, the Austrian essayist and Primo Levi’s former barrack-mate at Auschwitz, wrote one last novel before he died. Its six angry chapters are written as if by Charles Bovary, accusing Flaubert of ruining his life.
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The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
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How ‘Cops’ Became the Most Polarizing Reality TV Show in America
What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Story
How ‘Cops’ Became the Most Polarizing Reality TV Show in America
What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Finding True North
Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Return of the Face
Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
