“Living with a disability, I shielded myself from dance. Then I met him.”
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On Description
“If a depiction only distinguishes one thing from another, what else is lost?”
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The Sabbath Stew
What started as a loophole has remained one of Judaism’s most evocative, redolent foods.
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Filthy Matters
“Calvin Gimpelevich writes on the history and politics of public bathrooms.”
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Our Most-Read Longreads Originals of 2023
The 10 top-performing essays published on Longreads this year.
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Loneliness, Power, and the Top 5 of the Week
“I want to be left alone, but I don’t want to be lonely.” Hanif Abdurraqib writes this about a tension that dominated the career of singer Phyllis Hyman—but it also feels like a familiar plea in this dim, early-January week, when many of us leave the chaos of extended family and drift back into our own homes, our own jobs, and perhaps our own small pockets of solitude.
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Up In Smoke
“I woke up one day to the realization that I had written ten good pages of a book that was due in five months.”
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Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows
“Throughout its botanical, cultural, and social history, it has been a vehicle for our ideas about community, survival, and what we owe the future.”
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Our Longing for Inconvenience
“The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times.”
