Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
Posted inArts & Culture
Longreads Best of 2018: Arts and Culture
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture.
Posted inNonfiction
Demonology: A Woman’s Right to Fury
In an excerpt from her new book, Darcey Steinke investigates — and debunks — the demonization of anger within the female body.
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‘Little Grandpa’ and The List
When her grandfather died, Abigail Rasminsky learned about a part of his life she’d known nothing about.
Posted inStory
Kristen Arnett on Taxidermy, Memory, and “Mostly Dead Things”
“What’s considered high art? What’s lowbrow? What are those things? That’s something that, as a person who like, lives at 7-Eleven, I’m extremely interested in.”
Posted inNonfiction
‘TV Has This Really Fraught Relationship with the Audience.’
Emily Nussbaum talks about why TV’s relationship with its audience has become more intimate, whether we can blame Trump on True Detective, and how a TV critic’s biggest challenge is just figuring out what to watch.
Posted inNonfiction
The Enduring Myth of a Lost Live Iggy and the Stooges Album
In 1973, Columbia Records professionally recorded the infamous band for a planned concert record. Columbia never released it. Maybe they never recorded it.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Boy Who Wasn’t My Boyfriend
Allie Zenwirth falls in love within the confines of an all-male Chasidic school.
