This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahima Nasa, Roxane Gay, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Lucy Grove-Jones, and Jen Doll.
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Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quotes
Bolivian President Evo Morales Is Banking on the Country’s Untapped Resource: Coca Leaf
Instead of eradicating its coca crop, Bolivia is trying to market coca in a variety of products. Will anyone outside of Bolivia buy them?
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
The St. Louis Suburbs Bear the Cost of America’s Nuclear Past
After toxic waste from the Manhattan Project was illegally dumped in 1974, rare illnesses have effected the local population.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Nina Simone’s Three Years of Freedom
At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Katherina Grace Thomas, James Lasdun, Kyle Chayka, Tay Wiles, and Buzz Bissinger.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
An Ode to Black Families: A Reading List
This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
When Alzheimer’s Disease Relieves Us of the Pain in Our Past
For Maria Browning’s mother, Alzheimer’s Disease has dimmed old torments.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How Ayana Mathis Came to Own Her Ambition
After a phone call from Oprah, the author looks at the long line of women in her life who taught her about achieving her dreams.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On Impractical Urges
An essay excerpted from Robin Romm’s forthcoming anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition in which The Twelve Tribes of Hattie novelist Ayana Mathis considers the writing ambitions she often hasn’t felt entitled to–even after Oprah Winfrey chose her book as an Oprah 2.0 pick.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Face of Mass Deportation
At Guernica, journalist J. Malcolm Garcia profiles forty-eight-year-old Sixto Paz, a roofer with a family and no criminal record who moved into a church to avoid deportation.