I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.
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The Troubled, Tormented, Surprisingly Lucky Life of Michael Graham
A former Georgetown basketball star’s life took a troubled turn. Then he stopped at a gas station to buy a lottery ticket.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Month That Killed the Sixties
An oral history of how everything went to hell in December 1969. Fred Hampton was killed by the police, the hippie spirit died at Altamont, and the Weathermen went underground.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Day My Brother Took a Life and Changed Mine Forever
I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.
Posted inGuest Pick, Reading List
Six Stories About the Swimming Pool
Stories about swimming and swimming pools.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
Liar: A Memoir
“Your memories are already foggy and scrambled at times. And then, they may not even be there anymore.”
Posted inReading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, Cincinnati magazine, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, Orion, and the Washingtonian.
Posted inGuest Pick, Reading List
Six Stories About the Swimming Pool
Stories about swimming and swimming pools.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘A Bunch of Native American Kids from the Rez are the Basketball Kings of Wyoming’
Meet the Wyoming Indian High School Chiefs, who are creating a basketball dynasty at a tiny school on the Wind River Reservation.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Cinderella Story’?
To try to figure out what exactly that story is and why we still have it, we have to separate out the folk tale that is Cinderella, though, from the turn of phrase that is “Cinderella story.” Americans will call almost anything a Cinderella story that involves a good thing happening to someone nice. We slap that title on movies and books, but also on basketball games won by tiny schools full of scrawny nerds, small businesses that thrive and even political ascendancies that upend established powers.
