Ten hand-picked short stories to kick off your year in reading.
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Disappearing Language: A Reading List on Losing Your Native Tongue
Powerful reads on which language comes first, second, or even third.
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A Cultural History of Racial Fraud
What does it mean to perform race for a white audience?
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne, Nina Martin, Alex Tizon, Mary Mann, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Andy Newman.
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The Tyranny of Free Time, or How to Be Bored In Fiji
Mary Mann lays bare what most travelers are loathe to admit: it’s just as easy to be bored in Paris or on Bora Bora as it is at home.
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Thomas Cook and the Stack Pirates
Boredom and an enterprising Brit gave birth to the modern tourism industry, and we’re still trying to make sense of it all.
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A Reading List for Mother’s Day
There is no grand unified theory of motherhood. Within every paradigm, mothering may vary a million times over.
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One Novelist Remembers Her Moment
The cover was striking: it showed a syringe. On the back cover one character leaned over a table, snorting cocaine. The calls from radio stations began, the advertising spots, the letters, above all the letters. Girls telling me about their first acid trip. Gay guys who’d been thrown out of their houses. Girls in love […]
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Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches
Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.
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Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches
Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.