Five stories on the overwhelming, profound art of caring for other people.
Search results
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
“The art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this week’s Top 5 we have lessons from apartheid, clever Claude, feeling bodies anew, the power of wax, and free mining.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s stories include techno, New Zealand, relationships, background music and doodles.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Lessons for the End of the World
“On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
“Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature?”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Zombie Regulator
“As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
When the Arctic Melts
“What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
After the flood, twisted roles, the joy of emptiness, data disasters, and family road trips.
Posted inReading List
Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .
Everyone waits. No one is spared the waiting room, one way or another. Seven stories on an essential human condition.
