“The wild, tumultuous life of Stan Lee’s only child.”
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Posted inEditor's Pick
Barnaby’s Futura Fantasy
“In Crockett Johnson’s iconic comic strip, the type speaks for itself.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
In Harm’s Way
“How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s edition highlights stories by Peter Flax, Abigail Edge, Jesús A. Rodríguez, Henry Wismayer, and Elif Batuman.
Posted inReading List
Anatomy of the Mask: A Reading List on Superhero Comics
The adventures of superheroes reveal a lot about the people who created them — and the marginalized communities they represent.
Posted inNonfiction
Unleashed in Paris
As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Fiction, Story
Sabrina
A video of a missing woman being murdered has surfaced on the internet, confirming the worst. Her boyfriend, lying low at a friend’s house, stumbles upon a radio program whose enigmatic host says she’s still alive.
Posted inQuotes
The Stories We Don’t Tell
How many not-quite-parents are bearing the pain of miscarriage silently and alone?
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Expecting
“At family gatherings people handed me glasses of wine, and I drank them. I ate soft cheese and deli meats. I lived the life of non-pregnant Lucy, knowing all the time that I was pregnant Lucy and everything around me was wrong.”
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My First Year Sober
Writer and cartoonist Edith Zimmerman on how she stopped drinking.