The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet.
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On Female Friendship and the Sisters We Choose for Ourselves
Essayist Chloe Caldwell on the “sisters” we choose for ourselves, and her close relationship with her surrogate younger sister, Cheryl Strayed’s daughter Bobbi.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Place Your Bets: Six Stories About Gambling
Six stories about bets, luck, and playing the odds.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The ‘Wellness Craze’: Six Stories About Fitness
Six stories about the world of fitness.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘Herr Blatter, Have You Ever Taken a Bribe?’
In a recent piece for the Washington Post, Michael E. Miller profiled Andrew Jennings— a doggedly obsessed, “curmudgeonly” investigative reporter who helped expose the FIFA scandal that brought down Sepp Blatter. According to Miller’s piece, if Blatter’s downfall can be traced to a single moment it was when Jennings grabbed the microphone at a Zurich press conference after […]
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Life After Football: Our College Pick
Disappointment feels so much bigger when you’re young because you haven’t lived long enough to know that there’s always something else on the other side.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring Harper’s, St. Louis Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Fusion.
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The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad
As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.
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Why Watching ‘Survivor’ Is Like Watching Sports
Dawson suggests these shows are more closely related to sporting events than scripted dramas. In the case of Survivor, viewers get an experience similar to televised sports, Papacharissi explains: “You can root for your favorite castaway like you do for your favorite team, and vicariously experience her triumphs and setbacks from episode to episode.”
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Little Government in the Big Woods
Melissa Gilbert’s lost bid for Congress and the forgotten political history of ‘Little House on the Prairie.’
