Mary O’Connell recalls her college efforts to write about a scandalized priest from her youth.
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How We Got There from Here
Anna Armstrong recalls a road trip to escape her grief-stricken home — dragging her 13-year-old brother to see R.E.M.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Writing
Youth From Every Quarter
A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Wall Is a Fantasy
Separating fact from fiction in the plan to build an impenetrable barrier along the Mexican-American border.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Read stories by Andrew Sullivan, James Fenton, Adrian Daub, Michelle Kirsch, and Maria Bustillos.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Why Populism Will Not Make America Great: The Making of a Mexican-American Dream
Sarah Menkedick suggests that America has everything to lose if it can’t reject the resurgence of nativist (white) populism to embrace this generation of smart, ambitious, second-generation Mexican Americans.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
On Barbs and Demogorgons: A Stranger Things Reading List
After the binge-watching comes the binge-reading.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
A profile of the American writer and author, whose fiction helped transform the mainstream.
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What Are White Writers For?
“It was around this time that I first realized something nonwhite writers learn almost by default: for a fiction writer to deny that fiction is in some way political—in the sense of existing in an inherently politicized world—is not only an act of bad faith but a kind of artistic failure. How can we not, […]
Brooklyn Transcript
Proceedings of the Chekhov-Saunders Voltron/Humanity Kit Test Drive, held in Brooklyn on November 15th 2016. Participants: Sarah Miller (SM), Ryan Bradley (RB), David Lipsky (DL), and Maria Bustillos (MB). Sarah Miller is the author of Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn and The Other Girl and lives in Nevada City, CA. David Lipsky’s cultural history […]
