On a night out in the Hollywood hills, Valentina Valentini’s lifelong role-reversal with her mother becomes upended.
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Posted inCrime, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Prison or Bust: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
There’s food there, and shelter and healthcare. Which is (sadly) more than you can say for a lot of places.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Fear of Suffering Alone
After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Latest Diet Trend Is Not Dieting
Instead of counting calories and using weight as the barometer of health, intuitive eating encourages people to eat what they want when they feel hungry and dispense with notions of “good” and “bad” food. Guilt and shame only lead to overeating.
Posted inNonfiction
Greenland’s Deepening Ecological Grief
“We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story
Time To Kill the Rabbit?
In two new novels, the bunnies are anything but cute. (Unless … you use magic to turn one of them into a pre-TB Keats, or a talky Tim Riggins.)
Posted inEditor's Pick
NASA is Learning the Best Way to Grow Food in Space
Sarah Scoles on how learning to grow food in space is a critical milestone to furthering space exploration, because astronauts simply can’t haul all the food they’ll need to thrive during long absences from Earth.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jody Rosen, Reeves Wiedeman, Rebecca Liu, Sara Rimer, and Will Hodge.
Posted inNonfiction
What the World’s Most Controversial Herbicide Is Doing to Rural Argentina
After enormous lobbying efforts, Monsanto’s GMO soybeans, treated with Roundup, became the country’s largest export, as cancer rates and other health issues skyrocketed.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Brief History of Soy Milk, the Future Food of Yesterday
“We live in a golden age of milks.”
