“Above all else, Morrison’s rejection letters focus on craft—that is, on the experience of reading a work under review.”
Search results
Posted inTop 5
Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Human ingenuity in the face of crumbling infrastructure. One man’s quest to save a bird that might already be extinct. The cultural schism dividing a major musical genre. A personal essay braiding space and family. And a jungle trek gone horribly, horribly awry. These are our editors’ favorite reads of the week. 1. The Balkans’ […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
Meet the Con Artist Who Deceived the Front Range Tech Community
“It’s true that many of Clark’s actions defy logic. In key ways, he never fit the mold of a classic con man.”
Posted inFeature
Bones, Bones: How to Articulate a Whale
“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Ride Sounds
“Going deaf changed my relationship with cycling, even after I regained my hearing.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Joan Didion’s Magic Trick
Caitlin Flanagan goes on a road trip through California — including Sacramento, Berkeley, and Malibu — visiting the homes of the late Joan Didion and exploring why her writing has had such a powerful effect on people. Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album created a new vocabulary of essay writing, one whose influence is […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Deadly Love
“Ashley Wadsworth spent years building an online romance with a young Englishman. Months after they
met in person, he killed her—and her family learned of his dark past.”
Posted inUncategorized
A Colorful Addition and the Week’s Top 5
“Humans are besotted with color and we always have been. We love it so much we will breathe it, eat it, drink it, and look at it until our eyes roll back in our heads. We will paint with it, paint the world with it, paint ourselves with it. We will go to the ends […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
Mount Fear Diary
“Speaking to the dead can, for a short while, seem to place us outside the laws of nature—outside the rules governing time and space.”
