Alison Fishburn shares seven longreads on how humans experience the death of their pets.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
This Is How You Lose Your Mind
Dani Fleischer recalls how a lifetime of perfectionism led her down a path of self-destruction.
Posted inNonfiction
Sight and Insight
After a childhood filled with intrusive medical interventions for misaligned eyes, Liane Kupferberg Carter wrestles with learning to see herself and others clearly.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
Every One of Us Is Other: Looking Back on Representation in “Heavenly Creatures” 25 Years Later
Alex DiFrancesco reflects on Peter Jackson’s nuanced approach to representation in the critically acclaimed film.
Posted inReading List
Alternative Reality: ‘Three Wrongfully Convicted Men, 40 Years, and a City That Still Refuses to be Honest With Itself’
Matthew Kassel brings us eight excellent reads from alt-weeklies across the United States.
Posted inStory
None of the President’s Men
Journalism now is a lot more fear and insecurity and a lot less corduroy and Robert Redford, but you’d never know it from what is projected.
Posted inFeature
Bones, Bones: How to Articulate a Whale
“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”
Posted inStory
Telling Stories In Order to Live: On Writing and Money
Sarah Menkedick examines the perils inherent in trying to earn a living as a full-time writer.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Reading List
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Reading List
Beat poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. Here’s a reading list to celebrate the centenarian.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sarah Smith, Mattathias Schwartz, John Woodrow Cox, Justin Heckert, and Jonah Weiner.
