For the men and women who use the Deep Space Network to talk to the heavens, failure is not an option.
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The Encyclopedia of the Missing
She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
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 | 45Â minutes (11,296 words) A profile of Albert Woodfox, a man originally sentenced to 50 years […]
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.
Ferrante in Fragments of Her Choosing
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.
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.
The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
The Return of the Face
Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
Finding True North
Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.

