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Posted inBooks, Culture, Feature, Highlight, investigations, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing

When Refugee Families are Separated, Women Carry the Burden

by Longreads April 6, 2021February 22, 2023

The story of a Somali family uprooted by war and separated by America’s broken refugee resettlement system — and the siblings who brought them back together.

Posted inBooks, Feature, Highlight, Science & Nature, Story

Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships

by Longreads March 23, 2021February 22, 2023

On the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition

by Dana Snitzky March 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice. An excerpt from A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition

by Longreads March 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice.

Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition

by Longreads March 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Sports, Story

The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV

by Longreads March 6, 2018October 19, 2022

An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.

Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Sports

The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV

by Longreads March 6, 2018October 19, 2022

An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Reading List

Living With a World on Fire: A Reading List

by Daniel A. Gross August 18, 2016October 19, 2022

Below is a guest reading list from Daniel A. Gross, a journalist and public radio producer who lives in Boston. * * * As a teenager growing up in Southern California, I remember looking up one day and seeing a fine white powder falling from the sky. It was the middle of summer, and for […]

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Reading List

Living With a World on Fire: A Reading List

by Daniel A. Gross August 18, 2016October 19, 2022

Below is a guest reading list from Daniel A. Gross, a journalist and public radio producer who lives in Boston. * * * As a teenager growing up in Southern California, I remember looking up one day and seeing a fine white powder falling from the sky. It was the middle of summer, and for […]

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

The Art of Running from the Police

by Longreads May 26, 2015October 19, 2022

A young man concerned that the police will take him into custody comes to see danger and risk in the mundane doings of everyday life. To survive outside prison, he learns to hesitate when others walk casually forward, to see what others fail to notice, to fear what others trust or take for granted.

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