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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s edition highlights stories by Elissa Nadworny and Claire Harbage, Thomas Lake, Jeff Sharlet, Jasmine Attia, and Brett Martin.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Remembering the Egyptian Childhood I Never Had Through Its Culinary Traditions
“Sometimes I think my parents were afraid they might fade into the ether if I didn’t understand what home meant to them. In a sense, they were probably right.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
BookTok Is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform
“When I scroll TikTok, I see creativity, joy, pleasure, energy, and a contagious enthusiasm for books.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Nona Fernández on the Constellations We Create With Our Memories
“Our archive of memories is the closest thing we have to a record of identity.”
Posted inNonfiction
The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell
Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Ambiguous Loss of (Probably) Not Selling My Novel
In a period of trying to sell her novel, Danielle Lazarin reflects on art, waiting, and the space between grief and hope.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories
“When it comes to bubble tea and Amy Tan, I’ve taken different stances, but the two have much in common. They’ve both become shorthands of some vaguely ‘Asian American thing.’”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Melissa del Bosque, Marta Martinez, Kiese Laymon, Jill Damatac, and Nehmat Kaur.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Greg Jaffe, Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques, Jeremy Lybarger, and Cat Cardenas and Christian Wallace.