“Every summer, more than a hundred kids spend a weekend at Camp Erin swimming and canoeing. They also learn to deal with death.”
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Cairo Song
“I could no longer bear to live within a system that is actively rigged against people, against life, against human flourishing.”
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Out of the Fog
“Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.”
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Mothering at the End of the World
“We went to North Carolina to see how mothers carry on when their world comes crashing down. Sometimes they hold each other.”
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Rebuilding Myself After Brain Injury
“What does it mean to be a writer when my words have vanished?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Josh Dzieza, Mark Krotov, Wendy Brenner, Paul Brown, and Andrew Normal Wilson.
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“I have no status inside or outside any clear borders unless I consider my mother’s uterus my original country.”
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The Many Lifetimes of an Old Red Bike
“Five generations of a family’s love, told through a bicycle.”
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My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza
“In my homeland, where we used to cook and celebrate together, my relatives are eating animal feed to keep from starving.”
