Tag: The Cut

Every era bears its aesthetic burden. This is ours.

Emily Gould reconsiders the likelihood of women’s first-person writing bringing about change.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Wendy C. Ortiz, Mary South, Jeremiah Moss, Nora Caplan-Bricker, and Samanth Subramanian.

“But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”

Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Brett Forrest, Lizzie Presser, Ahmet Altan, Lisa Miller, and James K. Williamson.

Rebecca Traister asks how NBC can possibly change its misogynist culture if it keeps the same bad actors at the top.

Longreads editors discuss recent stories in Inc., The Cut, and The Baffler.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, Columbia Review of Journalism, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard.

This week, we’re sharing stories from E. Jean Carroll, Stephanie Clifford, Robert Macfarlane, Kathryn Miles, and Graphic Staff with Spencer Cliche.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Newton, William Langewiesche, Sarah Miller, Hafizah Geter, and Shannon Keating.

This week, we’re discussing stories in The Cut, Vulture, The New York Times, Topic, and The Atavist.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Jen Gann, Christine H. Lee, John Birdsall, and Anna Callaghan.

From over-development to contaminated cenotes, the problems continue to pile up in the Mayan paradise formerly known as Tulum.

Patrick Burleigh carried an extremely rare genetic mutation, which brought on puberty prematurely.

“We are experts in our own lives, but ignored by the world at large.”

This week, we’re sharing stories from Nell Boeschenstein, Hannah Giorgis, David Davis, Chris Randle, and Kelly Conaboy.

As Caitlin Moran explains, there are Bad Men, and then there are Badly Educated Men.

More families are having only two children, leaving an entire culture to fade away: middleborns.

The ruling minority of white men are getting nervous about impending destabilization of their power.

In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Pao reveals the harassment and discrimination she experienced at a Silicon Valley venture firm.

Despite a high demand for it, plus-size fashion has been largely neglected and poorly executed by major brands. But that’s starting to change.

Gabrielle Bellot explores the original inspiration for Betty Boop—a black jazz singer with an iconic style and voice.

Rachel Cusk talks to Heidi Julavits about the “trench” she digs between herself and representations of herself, in both memoir and “autofiction.”

It took Leah Carroll years to determine that her mother was murdered by an organized crime syndicate as a suspected drug informant.

I used the seven deadly sins–lust, gluttony, envy, greed, sloth, pride, and anger — as the springboard for choosing these stories. 1. LUST: “Eileen Myles on the Excruciating Pain of Waiting for Love.” (Eileen Myles, The Cut, February 2016) Poet and novelist Eileen Myles muses on a summer fling that should’ve lasted forever. 2. GLUTTONY: […]

At The Cut, Emily Gould profiles Cat Marnell, the famously self-destructive former beauty editor who miraculously managed to complete a compelling, well-written memoir, How to Murder Your Life — despite first blowing her entire advance on drugs.

Discussing how privilege factors into Gilbert’s story and success.

In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.