Taking Cents, Making Sense of a Broken Family By Katie Kosma Highlight Sari Botton turns to petty – incredibly petty – theft after her family life hits the fan.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Jen Gann, Christine H. Lee, John Birdsall, and Anna Callaghan.
The Beautiful Politics of the Backyard Barter System By Krista Stevens Highlight “My farm connects me to the world, the ground, its air, its water, its fauna, and people. In an introvert-kind-of-way. Which is to say, my-kind-of-way.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Christine Kenneally, Desiree Stennett and Lisa Rowan, Andrea Long Chu, Victoria Blanco, and David Kushner.
Series Exhumes Out-of-Print Books by Black Authors By Danielle Jackson Highlight “The Blackist,” a column for Catapult’s magazine, introduces audiences to out-of-print novels written by black authors.
On Pointe: Reading on Ballet By Em Perper Reading List Emily Perper shares their love of dance with five great reads on ballet.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jessica Bruder, Garrett M. Graff, Suleika Jaouad, Gulnaz Saiyed, and Daniel Riley.
The Painful Resilience of Hope By Michelle Weber Highlight How do you bring yourself to plan for a baby after three miscarriages in a row?
“99 Luftballons” and the Grim Fairy Tales of ’80s West Germany By Ben Huberman Highlight On storytelling in the shadow of Chernobyl, U.S. military planes, and not-so-distant German history.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne and Nina Martin, Michael Hobbes, Rebecca Traister, Naima Coster, and Kristen Roupenian.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Anand Gopal and Azmat Khan, Claire Dederer, Dale Maharidge, Leslie Jamison, and Nina Coomes.
Giving Thanks, Silently By Sari Botton Highlight Nina Coomes recalls her family’s Thanksgiving vows of silence at a Catholic retreat center in Illinois.
On Identity, Miyazaki, and Japanese Bathhouses By Ben Huberman Highlight On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Ellen Pao, Henry Wismayer, Taylor Harris, and Jeff Maysh.
‘Is This Gonna Happen Every Day in Charlottesville?’ By Sari Botton Highlight A black mother wrestles with having to explain the violence in Charlottesville to her six-year-old daughter.
Can You Return To a Place That Was Never Your Home? By Pam Mandel Highlight Grace Linden considers repatriation to Austria — a place she has never lived.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rebecca Solnit, Robert F. Worth, Margaret Talbot, Porochista Khakpour, and Frank Bures.
The Essay Will Feel Like It’s Killing You By Krista Stevens Highlight “Begin by writing about anything else,” says Porochista Khakpour, until she becomes conflicted about writing about being Iranian-American.
Our Gardens, Growing: A Reading List By Em Perper Reading List Five stories about plants and gardens and the humans that tend them.
A Love Affair with a Prince Soundtrack By Danielle Jackson Highlight Veteran music journalist Michael Gonzales reflects on a long love affair and Prince’s deep, varied catalogue of hits.
A Reading List for Mother’s Day By Em Perper Reading List There is no grand unified theory of motherhood. Within every paradigm, mothering may vary a million times over.
A Runaway Sister’s Survivor Guilt By Sari Botton Highlight Chris J. Rice reaches out to the baby brother she left behind when she ran away from their abusive mother at 15.
‘Hopely I’ll See You Again’: An Unlikely but Wonderful Love Affair By Krista Stevens Highlight Noah Cho ruminates on why his blond, all-American mother chose his “barely bilingual” Korean father.
This Is God’s Property By Michelle Weber Highlight Kelsey Munger shares the story of a childhood spent being vigilant against the demons, witches, and werewolves her parents believed were stalking their family.
On Bearing Witness: Saving Chickens, Saving Myself By Krista Stevens Highlight Christine Hyung-Oak Lee reflects on seeing and “being seen” — the silent gift of bearing witness to one another and individual suffering as a way of offering comfort and hope.
Between Their Arab Past and American Present By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Lauren Alwan narrates her family’s migration from Syria to California to explore how people’s evolving identities help gain them a foothold in America and create unintentional tensions across generations.
What Lies Beyond: A Reading List About Life and Death By Em Perper Reading List The stories I’ve included this week are about eternal life and the fear we feel while contemplating the lack thereof.
A Reading List for Thanksgiving By Em Perper Reading List None of the following stories were written in 2016, but the themes of our contemporary American Thanksgiving traditions—family, identity, history—remain relevant.
Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches By Em Perper Reading List Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.
The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List By Em Perper Reading List Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
