Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.
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The Friend That Got Away
Beverly Donofrio looks back on a friendship she hadn’t expected to make — or to lose.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Friend That Got Away
Beverly Donofrio looks back on a friendship she hadn’t expected to make — or to lose.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Reading List
Betsy DeVos’s Cynical Defense of the Trump Education Budget Cuts
The Education Secretary makes the case before Congress that “less money” becomes “more latitude.”
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Moving Stars
“The Obamas are not Teflon. The Obamas are Lonsdaleite. Even as our nation convulses and writhes, a king snake biting itself, the Obamas stand calm. America may well be broken. The Obamas are not.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Posted inBlog Post
What Are the Secret Moves Being Made on the Senate Health Care Bill?
It’s hard to know, as it’s all being brokered behind closed doors.
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President Barack Obama Says, ‘This Is What a Feminist Looks Like’
Feminist Dude/Dad in Chief, Barack Obama, has penned an essay for Glamour about how far women have come, how much farther they need to be encouraged to go, and how both men and women are limited by outdated gender stereotypes that need to be retired.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
A New Era of Unreality: Stop Making Sense, or How to Write in the Age of Trump
In the Village Voice, Aleksandar Hemon explores the “unreality” of a Trump presidency, likening this era of American history to the start of the war in Bosnia in 1992, and calling for new literature that doesn’t shy away from the conflicts and destruction ahead.
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How the ‘Girls’ Cast Came to Be
Lacey Rose gives the cast and creators of Girls — from Lena Dunham to Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner — the full oral-history treatment.
