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This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack.

by Dana Snitzky June 23, 2020October 19, 2022

To read my “This Week in Books” newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.

Posted inUncategorized

This Week in Books: We’ve All Been Briefed

by Dana Snitzky June 16, 2020November 25, 2022

“They have washed their hands for you. / And they take the bus home.” —Jericho Brown

Posted inBooks

This Week in Books: Several Nihilistic Frenchmen

by Dana Snitzky May 6, 2020December 9, 2022

This week critics have looked to Huysmans, Camus and Jean-Philippe Toussaint for COVID-era inspiration.

Posted inStory

Japan: A Longform Reading List of Longform Writing

by Aaron Gilbreath April 30, 2020December 9, 2022

Armchair travel is more important than ever, now that pandemic has forced us to stay indoors. Reading can take you across the ocean.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Commentary, Current Events, Fiction, Science & Nature

This Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal

by Dana Snitzky April 7, 2020December 9, 2022

The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Current Events, Reading List

Toni Morrison, 1931-2019

by Danielle Jackson August 13, 2019October 19, 2022

An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

A Reading List of Long-form Writing by Asian Americans

by mikedang August 1, 2019October 19, 2022

Longreads editor-in-chief Mike Dang shares some of his favorite long-form writing by Asian American journalists.

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