A dozen exceptional stories from 2018 that deserve our ongoing attention.
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The American Worth Ethic
Like so many of our lofty ideals, the “American Work Ethic” is actually two different standards — one for the wealthy and one for the poor — with two different interpretations of what work looks like.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
Moonshine: The Black Tradition of Distilling ‘White Whiskey’
If craft food culture looks overwhelmingly white, it’s because black influences have been routinely scrubbed from its history.
Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized
The South Carolina Dylann Roof Knew
For GQ, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah travels through the state that taught Roof a perverted viewpoint of the antebellum period.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘Archive, Archive, Archive’: Valeria Luiselli on Reading In Order To Write
To write “Lost Children Archive,” Valeria Luiselli studied the refugee crisis “obliquely,” reading about other historical moments of children’s mass displacement, amassing a reader’s archive of loss.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Science & Nature, Story
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Pearls
Born from irritation and intrusion, luminous and complex, surprisingly durable: pearls are rich with symbolism and saturated with pain.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Secrets of the South
Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge writes about her weekend in Chesapeake, Virginia for the 150th anniversary of United Order of Tents, a secret society of black women established after the end of the civil war, which has long provided much needed financial and other kinds of support to black communities.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician
If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
The Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest’s pioneering music is one of many filaments that connects Americans of color with each other now and back through time.
