The Golden Gate Bridge has long embodied the contradictions of the city it overlooks: ambition, connection, innovation, a beginning and an end.
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When Zora and Langston Took a Road Trip
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston gave Langston Hughes a lift to Tuskegee in her Nash coupe, nicknamed “Sassy Susie.” It was one of most fortuitous hangouts in literary history.
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Angrily Experiencing the Best Days of Our Lives
Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.
Posted inBooks, History, Science & Nature, Story, Unapologetic Women
A British Seaweed Scientist Is Revered in Japan as ‘The Mother of the Sea’
Kathleen Drew-Baker died never having set foot in Japan, and never knowing what an impact her research would make. Plus, how to build a lazy bed, how to cook Irish blancmange, and other surprising seaweed stories.
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A Crocodile In Paris: The Queer Classics of Qiu Miaojin
As the first woman in Chinese literature to come out as openly gay, Qiu Miaojin adopted and humanized the bestial expectations of a cruel public.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Storytelling the Flood: Elizabeth Rush on Empathy and Climate Change
In her new book, Elizabeth Rush gives voice to poor communities and communities of color who are the first victims of the rising sea.
Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, First Chapters, Nonfiction
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person
In an excerpt from her memoir, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person
In an excerpt from her memoir, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Exodus in the Ozarks
At a theater in Branson, Missouri, Pam Mandel finds an unexpected plot twist in a very familiar story.
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Colson Whitehead: An Appreciation
Black Cardigan is a great newsletter by writer-editor Carrie Frye, who shares dispatches from her reading life. We’re thrilled to share some of them on Longreads. Go here to sign up for her latest updates. * * * I was skipping around Google the other day and was reminded of a piece by Colson Whitehead called “How To Write.” You may […]
