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I’m 72. So What?
By Catherine Texier Feature

Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.

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Bundyville: The Remnant

What if we told you that in the summer of 2016, in a rural Western town, there was a bombing you never heard about?
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‘I Was Being Used in Slivers and Slices’: On Feminism at Odds With Evangelical Faith
By Jane Ratcliffe Feature

“I wasn’t unified in my being. I wasn’t able to bring my whole self to the table,” says Cameron Dezen Hammon about her life as a worship leader for an evangelical megachurch.

A Green New Jail
By Will Meyer Feature

What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?

The Final Five Percent
By Tim Requarth Feature

If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials — but one neuroscientist discovers that assigning crime a biological basis creates more issues than it solves.

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I’m 72. So What?
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After the Storm
By Mary Heglar  / Guernica Magazine
An Oral History of Hard-Shell Tacos
By Andrew Fiouzi  / MEL Magazine
Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers
By Joseph Cox  / Motherboard
How to Mourn a Glacier
By Lacy M. Johnson  / The New Yorker
My Own Private Iceland
By Kyle Chayka  / Vox
The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
By Andy Greenberg  / Wired
The Great American Press Release
By Maurice Carlos Ruffin  / Oxford American
Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
By Zadie Smith  / New York Review of Books
You Talk Real Good
By Alison Stine  / Longreads
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The Corpse Rider
By Colin Dickey Feature

“I could see the ghosts,” recalled Lafcadio Hearn about his early childhood. Late in life, he became a celebrated chronicler of Japan’s folk tales: stories of strange demons and lingering visitations.

Records on Bone
By Longreads Feature

One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.

The Link Between Hurricane Katrina, Emmett Till, Racism, and Climate Change
By Krista Stevens Commentary

“I wondered if Katrina was really a 14-year old boy named Emmett.”

Eating What Feels Right: On Going Vegetarian
By Alison Fishburn Reading List

Bert’s Market was a grocery store in my hometown of central Florida that I remember for three reasons: It was always freezing, the place reeked because they butchered their meat on site, and it’s where I learned where the meat we ate came from. One day, my sisters and I were with our dad at […]

Encrypted Phones, By Criminals, For Criminals
By Krista Stevens Highlight

How a criminal-turned-crime-blogger got the notice of the most notorious drug trafficking duo in Scotland.

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Memorializing a Glacier and Hoping for the Future
By Sari Botton Highlight

Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”

We’re All Tourists Now, So Let’s Stop with the Endless, Tedious Quests for Authenticity
By Ben Huberman Highlight

In Iceland, overtourism has transformed the island in a few short years — and locals and visitors alike try to grapple with the change.

Olympic Destroyer: The Cyberattack on the 2018 Winter Games
By Krista Stevens Highlight

It was Russia, in the cybertubes, using stolen passwords, a secret backdoor, and layers upon layers of false flag cloak work meant to stump security analysts.

Research and Rescue: Saving Species from Ourselves
By Ashley Braun Feature

We’re developing high-tech genetic tools to pour new life into animals lost to human destruction. Deciding how — and whether — to use that power is as complex as the science behind it.

A Fresh Look at The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1998 Album Adore
By Longreads Feature

Loved and loathed in equal measure, one thing critics can’t take from this influential 90s band is their willingness to evolve musically.

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‘I Went Quiet…and That Allowed Me To Understand’: The Life of a Molecatcher
By Tobias Carroll Feature

Marc Hamer discusses life, death, and the lost art of catching a mole.

Queens of Infamy: Njinga
By Anne Thériault Feature

The Portuguese colonizers of West Central Africa learned it the hard way: you mess with the Queen of Ndongo and Matamba at your own peril.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo-Hoo
By Christy Lynch Feature

A Childless Millennial’s Guide to Falling Apart at Disney World

Hello, Forgetfulness; Hello, Mother
By Max Feature

Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids
By Katy Kelleher Feature

Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it’s a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.

Happiness is Fleeting
By Longreads Feature

Good grief, adolescence is difficult. Luckily Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell found solidarity and guidance from The Peanuts Gang.

Books

The Corpse Rider
By Colin Dickey Feature

“I could see the ghosts,” recalled Lafcadio Hearn about his early childhood. Late in life, he became a celebrated chronicler of Japan’s folk tales: stories of strange demons and lingering visitations.

A Green New Jail
By Will Meyer Feature

What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?

‘I Was Being Used in Slivers and Slices’: On Feminism at Odds With Evangelical Faith
By Jane Ratcliffe Feature

“I wasn’t unified in my being. I wasn’t able to bring my whole self to the table,” says Cameron Dezen Hammon about her life as a worship leader for an evangelical megachurch.

A Fresh Look at The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1998 Album Adore
By Longreads Feature

Loved and loathed in equal measure, one thing critics can’t take from this influential 90s band is their willingness to evolve musically.

‘I Was Interested in the People Who Are Stuck With These Memories.’
By Victoria Namkung Feature

Steph Cha discusses her new novel “Your House Will Pay,” the LA Riots, the Korean American Angeleno community, her 3,600 Yelp reviews, and pushing back against gatekeepers in publishing.

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Current Events

Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences
By Longreads Reading List

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

Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories
By Longreads Commentary

Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.

Editor’s Roundtable: Climate of the Future, Music of the Past
By Longreads Commentary

Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.

It’s Time To Talk About Solar Geoengineering
By Longreads Feature

We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.

Fire Sale: Finance and Fascism in the Amazon Rainforest
By Will Meyer Commentary

From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.

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Essays & Criticism

I’m 72. So What?
By Catherine Texier Feature

Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.

A Green New Jail
By Will Meyer Feature

What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?

Memorializing a Glacier and Hoping for the Future
By Sari Botton Highlight

Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”

Life After Pain
By Michelle Weber Highlight

One day, Ge Gao’s right hand stopped working. Then the pain started, and it’s never stopped.

You Talk Real Good
By Alison Stine Feature

Alison Stine confronts the ways in which being hard of hearing has made her job search more difficult.

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