How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?
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Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sabine Heinlein, Leslie Jamison, Ijeoma Oluo, Eric Newcomer with Brad Stone, and Jill Lepore.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Conversation I’ve Been Dreading: Ijeoma Oluo Talks About Race with Her Mom
An essay excerpted from So You Want to Talk About Race in which Ijeoma Oluo writes about a messy, uncomfortable, and important conversation she had with her white mother about race and racism.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
An Elegy for Bette Howland, a Writer Who Was Nearly Forgotten
On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Where It’s Always Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Marissa Weiss explores life in Alaska: The cold, the dark, the ice, the 3,000 miles between her and her parents in Maryland.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Cold
Miranda Weiss on moving to Alaska — 3,000 miles away from her parents — and choosing to stay there.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Some Apache People Deal with Intergenerational Trauma
In the mountains of northern Mexico, some of Geronimo’s decedents try to forgive the perpetrators of the wars against Native Americans.
Posted inNonfiction, The Atavist Magazine, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Mike Mariani, Emma Marris, Patrick Rosal, Susana Ferreira, and Scott Indrisek.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘They Used Deadly Force to Subdue Her’
An excerpt of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color,” about the violent ways police have frequently treated black women with mental illness.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?
A critical essay raising the question of why many in the literary world cast doubt or treat lightly Sylvia Plath’s allegations of serious abuse at the hand of her husband, poet Ted Hughes — who destroyed many of his wife’s journals from the period before her suicide. Much of her ordeal came to light in […]