“In baseball and in life, there is a cost to our pursuit of an error-free existence.”
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Translator’s Notes
“In this personal essay, translator Nathan Dize discovers striking links between the fiction he translates and his own family history.”
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Love, Lust, Loneliness: A Valentine’s Day Reading List
Essays, reading lists, and editors’ picks on relationships, breakups, and many different kinds of love.
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Luck’s Children
“Abraham Jiménez Enoa draws us into the underground network that runs La Bolita, Cuba’s wildy popular—and illegal—daily lottery.”
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Surfing the American Dream
“There’s a new fad in the sport I love. I should have hated it. Deep in a mega-mall, I surprised myself by how much it stirred in me.”
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Down and Out in Bedford Falls
“‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and the dream of small-town life.”
Posted inQuestionnaire
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Elisa Gabbert
The author of Any Person Is the Only Self and recent Guggenheim fellow talks about the worst time of day, the value of wasting an hour, and chilaquiles.
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Century-Scale Storage
“If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?”
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Stumbling Can Be Lovely
On the many ways we fall—and the beauty of getting back up.
