An essay in which author and academic Angela Pelster-Wiebe considers the best ways for white authors and artists to quit side-stepping the subjects of deeply rooted structural racism and their own privilege, and help dismantle white supremacy with their work.
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The Slow Regard of a Difficult Past
“In my family, love was the slow accumulation of moments in which I was not subjected to great harm.”
Posted inReading List
Going the Distance: A Reading List on Running
Six stories about running and the human drive to push through pain.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Emotional Preparedness for a Dying Planet
How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.