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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Disguised in Plain Clothes, but No Superman
After a shooting at Iowa State leaves him feeling inept at protecting his students, Chris Wiewiora becomes a campus bus driver instead.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
You Are a Jigsaw Puzzle with Missing Food-Shaped Pieces
Fat, thin, over-eating, under-eating. Lindsay Hunter’s relationship with food, weight, and body image has been consistently complicated.
Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized
Reflections of an Accidental Florist
When a painter stumbles into a floral career, she sees the ugly truth behind a colorful, fragrant industry.
Posted inBlog Post, Uncategorized
The ‘Anti-Helicopter Parent’ Is Just as Insufferable as the Helicopter Parent
But by trying to Make Childhood Great Again, this parent misses a critical point about why kids are overscheduled.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Judging Books By Their Covers
Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.
Posted inReading List
A Resolute 2017: A Reading List
In 2016, I published my New Year’s resolutions on Longreads. As 2017 dawns, I thought I’d check in with my old self, dust off 2016’s goals and set some new intentions.
Posted inNonfiction
The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion
Eighty years ago, in Berlin, Stella Walsh won her second Olympic medal. Decades later, Walsh’s murder and subsequent autopsy threw the legacy of track’s first female superstar into turmoil.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Assertiveness Training
Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Same Story
“In this story, two young women are pregnant at the same time by the same man. One of the women is a musician and a writer and a feminist, and she sports tattoos and body piercings before they are cool. The other woman is an outdoorsy graduate student and a feminist, and she wears J. […]
