This week we’re sharing stories by Caity Weaver, Matthew Desmond, Chris J. Rice, Kent Russell, and Rafe Bartholomew.
The New York Times
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In Your Dreams: A Reading List
In dreams, everything looks familiar but wrong somehow. Here are six stories about what happens between sleep and wakefulness.
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An Ode to Black Families: A Reading List
This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.
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Alexander Chee: ‘He thought I wanted monogamy more than him, and I didn’t.’
Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
‘Women and Girls Were Not Jumping Up and Down to be Interviewed’: Rukmini Callamichi on Interviewing ISIS Sex Slaves
The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes
Is That a Pillowcase Full of Human Hair, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Annie Correal’s story on the last New York wigmakers has a little bit of everything: celebrity gossip, religious scandals, and of course, wigs.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Behind the Story: NYT’s Rukmini Callimachi on Covering ISIS Sex Slaves
An as-told-to account of what has to be one of the most emotionally challenging jobs in journalism: interviewing women enslaved by ISIS fighters, reporting on their experiences being repeatedly raped and having their lives threatened. Fearless New York Times writer Rukmini Callimachi talks to Elon Green.
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Last of New York’s Master Wigmakers
At a time when wigs are increasingly popular, the New York artisans who make them by hand are a vanishing breed.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
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The Religious Iconography of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
A vast range of political, historical, and religious influences went into Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, including one unexpected logo.