“I didn’t know at first what I was doing. I was just trying to represent the inside of the feeling.”
Guernica
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The Beautiful Incompleteness of Dusk
“Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk—that liminal moment in between—murmurs suggestions.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Nicholas Thompson, Gabriel Winant, Rachel Lord Elizondo, and Pamela Petro.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rukmini Callimachi, Annie Waldman and Joshua Kaplan, Jesmyn Ward, Hillery Stone, and Alice Driver.
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How Travel Writing May Look After the Pandemic
Although people will always travel and write about their experiences, it remains unclear how the travel writing form will look after Covid-19.
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Let’s Not Talk About Estrangement
“I’ve always had the sense that my mother’s side of the family is, in fact, diminished by my uncle’s absence. Or at least diminished in their quiet response to it.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Markham, Ariel Levy, Brooke Jarvis, Audrey Gray, and Chris Dennis.
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On Dolly Parton and Being Seen
“Perhaps I’m taking this too personally, but the idea of being inexplicably drawn to a phenomenon that is ultimately destructive is, well, heartbreaking and uncomfortably relatable.”
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Longreads Best of 2019: Science and Nature
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in science and nature.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Paul Kiel & Justin Elliot, Andy Greenberg, Mary Heglar, Katherine Miller, and Kyle Chayka.