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The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects

by Carolyn Wells July 11, 2022October 19, 2022

Anna Wiener’s article will make you consider the sounds of the mundane. They are beautiful. During the spring, as I spoke with Foley artists and watched them at work, I grew increasingly attuned to the various elements of soundscapes around me: the clicking scramble of gravel, the thud of a bag of frozen strawberries, the […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Long Afterlife of a Terrible Crime

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 6, 2022October 19, 2022

“Decades after her mother was killed, Regina Alexander reached out to the son of the people who did it.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Climate Change From A to Z

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

“The stories we tell ourselves about the future.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 10, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Anand Gopal, Óscar Martínez, Erica Lenti, T.J. Quinn, and Matt Zoller Seitz.

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Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

“Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better.”

Capsized green canoe wedged between rocks and whitewater rapids in the James River Richmond, Virginia.
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The Unlikely Hero in George Saunders’ Short Story, ‘The Falls’

by Krista Stevens February 2, 2022October 18, 2022

And he “…stopped in his tracks, wondering what in the world two little girls were doing alone in a canoe speeding toward the Falls, apparently oarless.”

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The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 7, 2022October 19, 2022

“Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history.”

The Milky Way Galaxy in the night sky over the dormant San Pedro Volcano by Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads June 10, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Wright Thompson, Mitch Moxley, Patrick Radden Keefe, Joshua Sokol, and Ariane Todes.

A female piping plover with a chick.
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads April 1, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Aviv, Clare Gerada, Fatima Syed, Leslie Jamison, and Deb Olin Unferth.

Supreme Court of the United States under dark, gloomy skies.
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 28, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Priscilla Long, Claire L. Evans, David Alm, and Sophie Haigney.

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