Judt’s widow Jennifer Homans reflects on her husband’s life and the making of his last book: I lived with him and our two children as he faced the terror of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. It was a two-year ordeal, from his diagnosis in 2008 to his death in 2010, and during […]
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A man attempts to track down his middle school teacher and offer a long-overdue apology: Only by chance was I curious enough about the subject line — ‘Customer Feedback’ — to open the email from a man named Larry Israelson. You published an item involving retired teacher James Atteberry and the CASA program. Mr. Atteberry […]
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‘More Will Be Revealed’: Advice to a Grieving Father
Cheryl Strayed’s collection of advice pieces, ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’, is one of our favorite collections.
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Our Longreads Member Pick: The Faithful Executioner (Excerpt), by Joel F. Harrington
For this week’s Longreads Member Pick (sign up here to receive it), we’re excited to share an excerpt from The Faithful Executioner, a book by Joel F. Harrington, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, published this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Harrington explains: “My book is based on the personal journal that German executioner […]
