Few are excited about the Apple Watch—its burdens are too easily imagined. And yet we treat it as an inevitability. How did this happen?
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Finding a Life in the Details: Our College Pick
Learning to capture the details that matter can take years. Beginning writers rely on physical traits to explain subjects, or do a notebook dump of descriptions that tell the audience nothing much at all. Connor Radnovich’s profile of Mike White, a Gulf War veteran with ALS, demonstrates a studied use of detail. Radnovich tells us […]
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‘There’s No Law for Me Here’
What happened to Naji Mansour and his family after Mansour refused to become an FBI informant: Other members of Naji’s family have been targeted, too. In 2011, Naji’s sister, Tahani, was detained at the Nairobi airport for three days. “I’ve heard, ‘It’s your people’”—that the US is behind her family’s troubles with customs officials—”more times […]
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After Action Report
This week’s Longreads Member Pick is from Redeployment, a collection of short stories by Phil Klay, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. Thanks to Klay and Penguin Press for sharing it with the Longreads community, and special thanks to Longreads […]
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Demonstrating in the Cloud: Our College Pick
Ivory Tower veterans, many of whom were students in the 1960s and 1970s, lament the lack of student activism on college campuses. There are few protests, only a smattering a vigils, and barely any quad chalking. But is all that passion and activism gone, or has it just moved – along with everything else – […]
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How to Spell the Rebel Yell
What did the Civil War sound like?
Posted inCollege, Nonfiction
Demonstrating in the Cloud: Our College Pick
Ivory Tower veterans, many of whom were students in the 1960s and 1970s, lament the lack of student activism on college campuses. There are few protests, only a smattering a vigils, and barely any quad chalking. But is all that passion and activism gone, or has it just moved – along with everything else – […]
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My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor
After veteran reporter Joseph Williams lost his job, he found employment in a sporting-goods store. In a personal essay, he recalls his struggles with challenges millions of Americans return to day after day: My plunge into poverty happened in an instant. I never saw it coming. Then again, there was no reason to feel particularly […]
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The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners are out: The Washington Post and The Guardian shared a Pulitzer for public service for their reporting on the Edward Snowden leaks and widespread NSA surveillance, the Boston Globe was honored for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity won for his black […]
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Why Did 'Girl Toys' All Become Pink?
Pink is a funny thing. In the early days of the 20th century, pink was not necessarily a girl color. I’ve even heard that pink was considered a popular color for boys because it was a lighter version of red, which has always been seen as powerful and masculine. But as the 20th century went […]
