Michael Pollan talks about using psychedelic drugs, escaping his own ego, and the therapeutic potential of seeing yourself spread out over the landscape like a coat of paint.
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Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Trip to Tolstoy Farm
Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Road to Asylum
Trans women migrate to escape violence and stay alive. Alice Driver accompanied one of these women on her journey.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Dying Days of the New West
Recent books about the American West turn the old frontier myth into a mirage.
Posted inBlog Post, Science & Nature
What Makes a Disability Undesirable?
Should we try to correct disabilities to help the disabled, or make their existence easier for the abled?
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Was It a Story of Love or Exploitation? It Was Both, and More
Alex Tizon’s account of his family’s slave left readers frustrated with the ambiguities of memoir, journalism, and storytelling.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Manhandling of Rock ‘N’ Roll History
Less than 8 percent of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s inductees are women. Time for it to step up and induct an all-female class in 2020.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
We Need to Talk About Money: Seven Stories About Personal Finance
For so long, conversations about money were considered gauche. With every essay and podcast episode, that taboo is broken down.
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Donald Trump’s War With the Past
The president willfully ignores, rewrites, or rejects history just as we have begun to truly interrogate the trauma of the Civil War.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
