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The Encyclopedia of the Missing

by Jeremy Lybarger January 11, 2018June 21, 2023

She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Ferrante in Fragments of Her Choosing

by Sari Botton October 31, 2016October 19, 2022

At The New Republic, novelist Alexander Chee has an essay/review of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, Ferrante’s new book of selected letters and interviews spanning nearly two-and-a-half decades.

Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 13, 2017October 19, 2022

Here are the stories we loved this week. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary Rachel Aviv | The New Yorker | Jan 16, 2017 | 45 minutes (11,296 words) A profile of Albert Woodfox, a man originally sentenced to 50 years […]

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Current Events, Nonfiction, Reading List

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners

by Matt Giles April 16, 2018October 19, 2022

This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.

Books, Fiction, Story

Did the Modern Novel Kill Charles Bovary?

by Ankita Chakraborty December 6, 2018October 19, 2022

Jean Améry, the Austrian essayist and Primo Levi’s former barrack-mate at Auschwitz, wrote one last novel before he died. Its six angry chapters are written as if by Charles Bovary, accusing Flaubert of ruining his life.