Tag: Catapult

On storytelling in the shadow of Chernobyl, U.S. military planes, and not-so-distant German history.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne and Nina Martin, Michael Hobbes, Rebecca Traister, Naima Coster, and Kristen Roupenian.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Anand Gopal and Azmat Khan, Claire Dederer, Dale Maharidge, Leslie Jamison, and Nina Coomes.

Nina Coomes recalls her family’s Thanksgiving vows of silence at a Catholic retreat center in Illinois.

On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Ellen Pao, Henry Wismayer, Taylor Harris, and Jeff Maysh.

A black mother wrestles with having to explain the violence in Charlottesville to her six-year-old daughter.

Grace Linden considers repatriation to Austria — a place she has never lived.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Rebecca Solnit, Robert F. Worth, Margaret Talbot, Porochista Khakpour, and Frank Bures.

“Begin by writing about anything else,” says Porochista Khakpour, until she becomes conflicted about writing about being Iranian-American.

Five stories about plants and gardens and the humans that tend them.

Veteran music journalist Michael Gonzales reflects on a long love affair and Prince’s deep, varied catalogue of hits.

There is no grand unified theory of motherhood. Within every paradigm, mothering may vary a million times over.

Chris J. Rice reaches out to the baby brother she left behind when she ran away from their abusive mother at 15.

Noah Cho ruminates on why his blond, all-American mother chose his “barely bilingual” Korean father.

Kelsey Munger shares the story of a childhood spent being vigilant against the demons, witches, and werewolves her parents believed were stalking their family.

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.

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.

The stories I’ve included this week are about eternal life and the fear we feel while contemplating the lack thereof.

None of the following stories were written in 2016, but the themes of our contemporary American Thanksgiving traditions—family, identity, history—remain relevant.

Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.

Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.

Time for flip-flops, sunscreen, and, of course, summer reading.

Stories about looking for clues about the future.

This week, I wanted to share five more stories about what it means to disappear—either against your will or by your own volition.

The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.

In “Fashioning Normal,” Esmé Weijun Wang writes at Catapult about performing wellness in the midst of mental illness.

When we purchased our Burning Man tickets, Karl said to me, “All first-timers have a nervous breakdown of some kind.” We didn’t know that my breakdown would come on the first night. Burning Man presents a lot of unfamiliar stimuli all at once. Hugs from everyone! Naked boobies everywhere! Manual labor in an inhospitable environment! […]

At Catapult, Alexander Chee has a self-reflective essay about a period in the early aughts when he got to sublet a friend’s plum 19th-story apartment in Gramercy Park. She let him have it for just $900 per month, a steal, which took a great deal of financial pressure off of him. This was after the […]