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Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2021
Pravesh Bhardwaj read and and shared 304 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2020. Here are his favorites.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Grieving Landscape
Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Feature, Highlight, investigations, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
When Refugee Families are Separated, Women Carry the Burden
The story of a Somali family uprooted by war and separated by America’s broken refugee resettlement system — and the siblings who brought them back together.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Week in Books: Pale Horse on the One Hand, Pale Rider on the Other
I sometimes forget that it’s all the same thing.
Posted inNonfiction
In Pocahontas County, Deep Divisions and a Gruesome Discovery
In an excerpt from ‘The Third Rainbow Girl,’ Emma Copley Eisenberg interrogates various social conditions that might have contributed to a mysterious double murder in West Virginia in 1980.
Posted inFeature
Shades of Grey
In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Reading List, Uncategorized
‘This Land’ Was Our Land: A Eulogy for a Groundbreaking Magazine
“This Land”closes its print edition this month, capping seven years of extraordinary local journalism.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Phone Call in The Age of Coronavirus
Marcia Aldrich on why cell phones, so thin and light and little, don’t seem fitting for momentous calls, for life and death communications, or for last words.
Posted inNonfiction, Sports, Story, Uncategorized
The NHL’s Lacrosse Takeover
How two kids from London, Ontario birthed the most unique goal in hockey’s history.
