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After My Dad Died, I Started Sending Him Emails. Months Later, Someone Wrote Back

by Krista Stevens January 16, 2020October 19, 2022

After Rax King’s father died in May, 2018, she wrote him emails to remember their relationship and to work through her grief. Stunningly, long after she’d began writing, someone — a living witness to the relationship she had with her dad — wrote back.

Books

Around The Pit

by Nicholas Triolo April 24, 2025

Circling billions of gallons of toxic water at America’s largest Superfund site.

Back to the Land

by Krista Stevens September 1, 2020October 19, 2022

Alice Driver shares the story of her dad’s wish to build his own tomb on his own land. “He wanted his death, like his life, to be a work of art—a tomb he designed and filled with ceramics—and one that would allow him to define death on his own terms.”

Feature

Bad Tape

by Dan Hernandez February 28, 2023February 29, 2024

“When a criminal defense attorney warns you not to view something — in this case, a suspicious VHS tape — it’s probably wise to listen.”

illustration of man and boat along the sea

Nonfiction

Perilous Passage

by Longreads March 2, 2022October 12, 2022

The true story of a Ukrainian father and son who became the first — and only — Soviet defectors to seek freedom in the West by crossing the icy Bering Strait.

Current Events, Feature, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story

Notes for a Post-apocalyptic Novel

by Frederick Reimers August 5, 2020November 4, 2022

When things get hard, we look to our most fundamental relationships. This is the story of a son, a father, a camper van, a pandemic, and the ties that bind.