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Serena WIlliams, wearing a black tennis minidress, tosses a ball high in the air before serving at the US Open.
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 9, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend stories by Carla Ciccone, Lex Pryor, Bhavya Dore, Michelle Cyca, and Casey Lyons.

Posted inStory

The Professor

by Irina Dumitrescu November 17, 2021October 13, 2022

“Maybe the most powerful person is the one who dares to refuse the gift.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“Academia is an industry, like journalism, that defines itself in large part by its ethical standards; we’re supposed to educate people and produce knowledge. So what does it mean that we’re also a haven for fakes?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Black Physicist Is Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 17, 2021October 19, 2022

“I am forced to live in a parallel world to the one I wanted to live in, where I could have been a physicist without also constantly being asked to speak on or attempt to compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 3, 2021October 19, 2022

Dan-el Padilla Peralta “believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The True Story of Jess Krug, the White Professor Who Posed as Black for Years—Until It All Blew Up Last Fall

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 29, 2021October 19, 2022

“She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘Writing Was a Way to Have My Say’: An Interview with Author Sejal Shah

by Krista Stevens November 12, 2020October 19, 2022

“I didn’t know at first what I was doing. I was just trying to represent the inside of the feeling.”

Posted inNonfiction

Jersey Girl

by Longreads December 31, 2019December 30, 2022

Too Japanese for Americans and too American for the Japanese, one New Jersey native traces the influence of racism on her parents’ careers and her own life.

Posted inBooks, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

If Following McMillan Cottom and Gay on Twitter Isn’t Enough, Here You Go

by michelleweber April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

More of this sort of thing, thanks.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Big Lie

by benhuberman September 6, 2018October 19, 2022

How the story of an ambitious chemistry professor in Colorado who forged a letter and lost everything.

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