Jeff Sharlet spends a day with the sexually pure teens of Battlecry Honor Academy, and learns that renouncing your sins doesn’t mean redacting their memories.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston
Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Man Who Put Down Clay
How do you get to know a father — or a man — who defines himself by one single, insurmountable achievement?
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Dad the Pornographer
Andrew Jefferson Offutt V published more than 400 pornographic novels using 17 different pseudonyms. After he died, his son Chris sorted through his belongings and learned more about his father’s private life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Love of a Thousand Muskoxen: Grieving a Love Lost to Time and Sickness
Years after spending a romantic month alone with a young photographer, Stephanie Land learns of his crippling chronic disease–and gets a glimpse of how much she meant to him.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘My Model for Writing Fiction Is to Replicate the Feeling of a Dream’
An interview with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes about his new book, ‘Patience,’ and several decades of comics craft.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
‘The One Who Gives Birth to Herself’: Rachel Syme on Empowerment and Agency Through Posting Selfies
It’s difficult to select just one perfect quote as a representative sample of Rachel Syme’s excellent ode to the selfie, at Matter.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2016: Under-Recognized Stories
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in under-recognized stories.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Unchain My Heart: On the Emotional Effectiveness—and Lingering Sexism—of Jewish Divorce
Sari Botton explores the dark side of a tradition that has for millennia subverted women’s rights.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction
My Unsentimental Education
“I wanted him to understand my life—that I’d been caught in the local pattern and found the safest way forward, but if I’d lived somewhere else I’d be someone else and still could.”
