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Screw You, and the Icelandic Pony You Rode In On

by michelleweber February 28, 2017October 19, 2022

Novelist Nell Zink, in n+1, takes readers on a rambling but sharp journey through writers and novels of the 20th century in the name of exploring realism, compassion, and justice in fiction.

Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads April 14, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re featuring stories from Richard Beck, Rebecca Mead, Sarah Barker, Dylan Matthews, and Sarah Scoles.

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Books, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘What Would Social Media Be Like As the World Is Ending?’

by Jacob Silverman February 18, 2019October 19, 2022

In Mark Doten’s “Trump Sky Alpha,” a journalist who has survived Trump’s nuclear apocalypse gets an assignment from what’s left of the New York Times Magazine: find out what people were tweeting as the bombs fell.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Life in a Post-Soviet Melting Pot

by michelleweber January 28, 2017October 19, 2022

Journalist and illustrator Lomasko was first noticed in the West for her graphic reportage from the Pussy Riot trial. In Tbilisi, Georgia, she spoke with historians, artists, journalists, activists, squatters, and local clergy about the political and cultural climate in this former Soviet republic.

Writing for Rejection (and Reading Doris Lessing)

by michelleweber February 24, 2017October 19, 2022

On reality, writing, publishing, fiction, non-fiction, Doris Lessing, and femininity: a writer muses on writing that impacted her, and what it means to write fiction at all.