One woman reconciles with her father’s death on her family’s property.
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The Watson Files
What if there were a blueprint for climate adaptation that could end a civil war? An English scientist spent his life developing one — then he vanished without a trace.
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Follow the Oil Trail and You’ll Find the Girls
A filmmaker travels the U.S. and Canada to speak with Indigenous women about the constant threats to their safety and their lives.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton
Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, read stories by Mark MacKinnon, Rachel Cusk, Carmen Maria Machado, Suketu Mehta, and an excerpt from Bill Hayes.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
To Tell the Story, These Journalists Became Part of the Story
In two recent books about immigrant families seeking asylum in the U.S., the authors’ attempts to help become part of their subjects’ stories.
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Killing of a Young Woman Grips Iceland
Iceland’s crime rates aren’t typically plagued with carnage—an average of two people are murdered per year—which why the case of Birna Brjansdottir, a 20-year-old sales associate who disappeared after a night out in Reykjavik in early January and whose body was recently found on a beach south of the city, has thrown the country into a tailspin. […]
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The Dying Days of the New West
Recent books about the American West turn the old frontier myth into a mirage.
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Go to Jail. Die From Drug Withdrawal. Welcome to the Criminal Justice System.
Julia Lurie reports on a rising trend: death by opioid withdrawal in jail. Read about how addict shame and silence, jail short-staffing, scant medical equipment, and a general apathy toward inmates can make a deadly combination.
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Ray Spencer Didn’t Molest His Kids. So Why Did He Spend 20 Years in Prison for It?
Ray Spencer spent nearly half his life in prison, convicted of raping his own children. It’s a crime he doesn’t remember committing, and as adults, his grown children began questioning their own memories and set out to find justice for their father.
