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Jeff Sharlet

Posted inEditor's Pick

All That We’ve Lost

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 10, 2021October 19, 2022

“One year on from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s still too early to explain all the whys of that which has been taken from us. We still need to name the what—loved ones, but also jobs, relationships, big breaks, last chances—and the what is vast.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story, Writing

Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace

by Josh Roiland December 7, 2017October 19, 2022

Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.

Posted inFiction, Nonfiction, Quotes

‘This Place, This Moment, Unplanned’: On Surviving a Heart Attack

by Krista Stevens August 9, 2017October 19, 2022

Jeff Sharlet on how recovering from a life-threatening event takes place moment by moment.

Rev. Billy Graham gives the closing prayer at Nixon's National Prayer Breakfast in 1973. (AP Photo)
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes

One Nation, Under God, With Liberty and Justice for Some

by michelleweber May 19, 2017October 19, 2022

Although a lot about Donald Trump seemed antithetical to conservative Christianity, he got a larger percentage of the Evangelical vote than Bush, Sr., Reagan, or Carter. Why?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Pew Research

by michelleweber May 18, 2017October 19, 2022

Jeff Sharlet’s review of Frances FitzGerald’s new book, The Evangelicals, is itself an important history lesson on American evangelism and politics.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Temptation, Purity, and High-Stakes Evangelism in a Texas Town

by michelleweber November 18, 2015October 19, 2022

Jeff Sharlet spends a day with the sexually pure teens of Battlecry Honor Academy, and learns that renouncing your sins doesn’t mean redacting their memories.

Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction

A Resourceful Woman

by Longreads February 17, 2015October 19, 2022

“Mary Mazur, 61, shrank into the blankets, muttering into the leaves, whispering to her only friend.” An Instagram essay by Jeff Sharlet.

Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction, Story

A Resourceful Woman

by Longreads February 17, 2015October 19, 2022

“Mary Mazur, 61, shrank into the blankets, muttering into the leaves, whispering to her only friend.” An Instagram essay by Jeff Sharlet.

Posted inNonfiction

#Nightshift: Minneapolis

by Longreads November 1, 2014October 19, 2022

Excerpts from an Instagram essay, by Jeff Sharlet. See part one. * * *

Posted inNonfiction, Story

#Nightshift: Minneapolis

by Longreads November 1, 2014October 19, 2022

Excerpts from an Instagram essay, by Jeff Sharlet. See part one. * * *

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