We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?
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Jared the Menace
Sloane Crosley faces the music. Jared’s music. Knock it off, Jared. Jared?! Jared!!!
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
I Had a Friend. He Dreamed of Israel.
After 35 years, a visit to a grave, and to a different country.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
Happiness is Fleeting
Good grief, adolescence is difficult. Luckily Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell found solidarity and guidance from The Peanuts Gang.
Posted inArts & Culture
Longreads Best of 2017: Arts & Culture Writing
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 writing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Media, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Underground Magazine That Helped Shape Portland, Oregon
Before Portland was a known entity, a group of volunteers and one charismatic editor published an indie arts magazine called Snipehunt. This is its story.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Story
American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere
“Jeanine Cummins can write about Mexico — but she will be judged on whether her writing actually captures the experiential and emotional and ethical complexity of that place, and she will be judged with extra care because she is an outsider.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Opera Lover Who Composed “Bat Out of Hell”
On the origins of the quintessential rock aria, and the powerhouse singer that served as its muse.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
