Tag: Catapult

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 […]