The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist.
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–Claudia Roth Pierpont, in The New Yorker, on the life and career of Nina Simone.
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Margot Singer | The Normal School | 2012 | 23 minutes (5,683 words)
The Normal SchoolThanks to Margot Singer and The Normal School for sharing this story with the Longreads community.* * *
Three girls are smoking on the back porch of their high school dorm. It’s near midnight on a Saturday in early autumn, the leaves not yet fallen, the darkness thick. A man steps out of the woods. He is wearing a black ski mask, a hooded jacket, leather gloves. He has a gun. He tells the girls to follow him, that if they make a noise or run he’ll shoot. He makes them lie face down on the ground. He rapes first one and then the others. He walks away. Read more…

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Ester Bloom, a writer and editor, recommends two stories by Rachel Aviv from The New Yorker: “These pieces by Aviv are about parents, children, and a legal system that tries to do its best by both parties as well as society at large, and ends up shortchanging everyone.”
A 14-year-old is tried as an adult for killing his grandfather.
A mother whose child is taken away becomes increasingly desperate in her attempts to win him back.

-From Alice Munro’s 2010 short story, “Corrie,” published in The New Yorker and recommended by author Elliott Holt: “Alice Munro writes so well about secrets. ‘Corrie’ is a suspenseful story about adultery and blackmail, about illness and faith, and about the compromises we make for happiness.”
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—Joshua Rothman, writing in the New Yorker about Virginia Woolf’s idea of privacy.
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