Honoring Peter Mayer, founder of Overlook Press, and one of “the stars of book publishing.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Chris Outcalt, Corie Brown, Daniel Immerwahr, Toniann Fernandez, and Karen Abbott.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes
Tangled in the Infinite War
Superheroes they used to stick up for the underdog and punch a lot of Nazis. Now, they fight villains who look a lot like themselves. Who are the baddies now?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Sports
There’s No Overtime In This Game
Georgia Cloepfil is only in her mid-twenties, but she already contemplating the end of her soccer career.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Beat the Clock
“Halls of fame and records and medals and posters belong to fans. Athletes do not mythologize the body in this way. What they do is navigate decay.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
In Bed-Stuy, the Ghost of Robert Moses is Alive and Well
Gentrification is about displacement — but also about marketing and invisibility.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Price Point that Would Guarantee Exclusivity
In Brooklyn, historically black Bedford-Stuyvesant has been experiencing rapid gentrification: “As a new order has emerged, the ghosts of the previous one are everywhere, but their echoes are getting smaller, snuffed out by the tides.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports
The Unnecessary Beauty of Ice Hockey
Kent Russell loves hockey. A lot. I don’t, but Russell’s writing about the game is utterly engrossing
Posted inEditor's Pick
Fighting With Their Fists to Put a Period in a Basket
“Hockey has no reason for being. Rather, hockey’s one of those things that give reason to being.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re featuring stories from Richard Beck, Rebecca Mead, Sarah Barker, Dylan Matthews, and Sarah Scoles.