This week, we’re discussing stories in The Cut, Vulture, The New York Times, Topic, and The Atavist.
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Posted inEditor's Pick
A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All
“It’s humbling to care for an animal that reminds you, each day, of your own imminent death.”
Posted inNonfiction
It’s Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer
Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in a time when Black writers began breaking the white ceiling.
Posted inNonfiction
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference
The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Feature, History, Nonfiction, Story
Whose Boots on the Ground
We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Linda Villarosa, Maurice Chammah, Mike Giglio, and Will Storr.
Posted inCrime, Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How One Artist Publicly Dealt With the Aftermath of Her Rape
For one woman, holding her employer accountable meant painting the story of her rape on a billboard above a busy LA freeway.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Reading List
1000 Days of Trump
Where do we start? How long do you have?
Posted inNonfiction
House of the Century
Daisy Alioto reconsiders the nature of architecture while researching window alarms.
Posted inNonfiction
Unearthing the Story: An Interview with Peter Hessler
The New Yorker writer describes his career’s circuitous route, from his start as a struggling fiction writer to becoming a China correspondent, and now the author of a new book about the Arab Spring.
