While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
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Longreads Best of 2017: Food Writing
Our top reads this year in food writing.
In the Wake of Weinstein and #MeToo, Why Does R. Kelly Still Have an Audience?
Women of color who have been singled out by sexual predators deserve our collective fury too.
The 2017 James Beard Award Winners: A Reading List
Congrats to all the winners of the 2017 James Beard awards.
Critics: Endgame
If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
After a Fashion
Trying so hard to set trends for the future, fashion’s institutions can’t stop stumbling over the past (and the present).
This Is How a Woman Is Erased From Her Job
After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
Margaret Atwood: The Prophet of Dystopia
At The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead profiles Margaret Atwood — Canada’s prolific queen of literature. Mead and Atwood cover the resonance of The Handmaid’s Tale in Donald Trump’s America, Atwood’s approach to feminism, and the purpose of fiction in today’s society. Beloved for her incisive mind along with her works, Atwood uses unlimited curiosity as […]
