“You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”
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Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘I Knew It Was Not My Correct Life, Because It Asked Me To Mute My Voice.’
Reema Zaman on deciding she would no longer live to please men, and how women’s self-esteem and self-love is a revolutionary act of dissent.
Posted inNonfiction
Father’s Little Helper
While under the influence of Valium, Scott Korb reflects on all the fathers he could have been and the father he has become.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month In Books: The Anxiety of No Influence
This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about pasts and futures, and how lineages stretch across time.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Name Change Dilemma
Hannah Howard considers tradition, identity, and love as she navigates the decision whether to keep her name after her wedding.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Inward Empire
A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Through a Glass, Tearfully
Maureen Stanton contemplates her history of crying in inappropriate moments, and considers tears from gender-based and political perspectives.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story
‘Just Assimilate Her Into Your Family and Everything Will Be Fine…’
In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘All You Can Ever Know,’ transracial adoptee Nicole Chung recounts how her parents came to adopt her.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
A Reading List of Long-form Writing by Asian Americans
Longreads editor-in-chief Mike Dang shares some of his favorite long-form writing by Asian American journalists.
