Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.
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On Wearing a Hijab for the First Time: They Never Really Did See Me
At The Weeklings, Khirad Siddiqui reflects on wearing a hijab at age 13, as a young woman in Plano, Texas. She discovered “affirmation and reassurance” in the writings of Malcolm X, an American Muslim who too felt that his “peers failed to understand him as a complete and multifaceted human being.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
What It Was Like To Love Oliver Sacks
A moving excerpt of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me, author Bill Hayes’s new memoir of his intimate relationship with late neuroscientist and author Oliver Sacks.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory
An exclusive excerpt from the new memoir by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
Posted inNonfiction
When ‘The Real World’ Gave Up on Reality
The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quotes
Roxane Gay on the Final Frontier: Acceptance for Every Female Body
Roxane Gay on her new memoir and on gaining acceptance for the female body in every shape and size.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inNonfiction
Bridget Jones’s Staggeringly Outdated Diary
Nineties relationship books had some serious issues, man.
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Announcing New Writers and Expanded Coverage
A note on our recent work, and some exciting announcements for what’s up next on Longreads.
