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We’re a home for stories that linger. In 2017, I reached out to Candace Rardon, a writer and artist whose watercolor sketches I’d admired for years. Up until that point, I’d only edited traditional essays for Longreads, but I wanted to experiment with illustrated personal narratives. We brainstormed a visual direction, and the final piece […]
“Living with a disability, I shielded myself from dance. Then I met him.”
On self-love and self-acceptance while aging in a disabled body.
“Freak tornadoes, ‘explosions’ of jellyfish, flash floods and dried up pumps.”
An essay about a forgotten deportation and the reckoning it left behind, a glimpse into Maria Popova’s writing and reading life, and our five recommended stories of the week.
What started as a loophole has remained one of Judaism’s most evocative, redolent foods.
“Moment by moment, this city will teach me to stay awake to the present, to pay attention, to follow the thread of human connection, to take pleasure where it’s found.”
“Throughout its botanical, cultural, and social history, it has been a vehicle for our ideas about community, survival, and what we owe the future.”
“Abraham Jiménez Enoa draws us into the underground network that runs La Bolita, Cuba’s wildy popular—and illegal—daily lottery.”
“Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.”
