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The Crane Wife

by benhuberman July 23, 2019October 19, 2022

Days after calling off her wedding, a writer travels to Texas to study the endangered whooping crane, and learns about the nature of need.

Nonfiction

Longreads Best of 2019: Essays

by Longreads December 10, 2019October 19, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.

Books, Commentary

This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack.

by Dana Snitzky June 23, 2020October 19, 2022

To read my “This Week in Books” newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.

Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes

Vivian Gornick on ‘Political Activism as a Path Toward a Coherent Self’

by Krista Stevens January 31, 2020October 19, 2022

“But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”

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Feature

I Remember the Bookstore

by Jason Guriel November 10, 2022March 5, 2024

Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s wander an aisle, running our fingertips across a wall of spines. One spine, thick and black, juts out: the recent NYRB Classics reissue of William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions. It’s a block of a book, […]