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Posted inEditor's Pick

Nona Fernández on the Constellations We Create With Our Memories

by Krista Stevens February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

“Our archive of memories is the closest thing we have to a record of identity.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Great Forgetting

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 1, 2023January 1, 2023

“Earth is losing its memory.”

collage of archived materials, from handwritten letters to vintage photographs
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Reading List, Story

What We Remember: A Reading List on Archives

by Hallel Yadin March 23, 2022October 19, 2022

Why do we keep what we keep — and who decides? An archivist digs and collects longreads on how objects and materials shape public memory.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The End of Travel

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2021October 19, 2022

“Driven by the need for a storied life, I relished the opportunity for endless travel. Is that a moment in time, now over?”

A woman lying down and a bowl of food
Posted inStory

Los Desaparecidos

by Longreads December 8, 2021October 12, 2022

Women in Sinaloa, Mexico, are searching for the remains of “disappeared” loved ones — and cooking to keep their memories of the dead alive.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Living Memory

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 30, 2021October 19, 2022

“Who, then, are the chroniclers of Black lives in the pandemic?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Night Gary Drove Me Home

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 29, 2021October 19, 2022

“It is not a normal thing to do—to acknowledge to yourself that you may have slept with a serial killer.”

Posted inHighlight

‘The City Just Lied’: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Massacre

by Seyward Darby May 31, 2021October 19, 2022

One hundred years later, journalists look back on the massacre of “Black Wall Street.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘My Tongue Swallowing the Taste of Home Soil’: On Filipino Food, Family, and Identity

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 13, 2020October 19, 2022

“Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.”

Posted inStory

‘Writing This Book Was a Weird Séance ’: An Interview With Deborah Levy

by Tobias Carroll October 15, 2019January 20, 2023

“If you have the depth, the surface can be as light as it’s possible to make it…I don’t mind that ‘Swimming Home’ is sometimes described as a ‘beach read’ — actually that’s a triumph.”

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