In an excerpt from her new essay collection, Heather Havrilesky calls for tuning out the online cacophony telling us we aren’t enough, and tuning in to the soul-affirming, quiet truth of the present moment.
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The Miracle of the Mundane
In an excerpt from her new essay collection, Heather Havrilesky calls for tuning out the online cacophony telling us we aren’t enough, and tuning in to the soul-affirming, quiet truth of the present moment.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Story
The Redemption of MS-13
Danny Gold investigates the movement converting El Salvador’s gang members into born-again Christians.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The ‘Creative Class’ Were Just the Rich All Along
Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.
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The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2017
The personal essays, original reporting, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Breaking Into China’s Counterfeit Supply Chains
How private detectives crack down on China’s rampant counterfeit industry.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
George Washington Lived in an Indian World, But His Biographies Have Erased Native People
Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?
Posted inBlog Post, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Story
Blockchain Just Isn’t As Radical As You Want It To Be
On how a new administrative technology is being conflated with radical politics.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Is the Internet Changing Time?
“Fragments of the past are for the first time on tap, not stored away in boxes,” writes Laurence Scott.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports
The Fallacy of the Olympics
Hosting the Olympics too often spells doom for the host country.
