Our Picks
Dark Meat
An unflinching look at the grueling, dangerous work of the poultry workers who process millions of turkeys ahead of Thanksgiving.
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Source: Slate
Published: Nov. 21, 2016
Length: 14 minutes (3566 words)
A Story of Racial Cleansing in America
Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before?
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Source: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Nov. 21, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4588 words)
Fine Dining
One New Orleans man reflects on the many unflattering racial layers of life of his city. "There are four of us. Four African Americans out of 280. One from a class of the early eighties. Two from the nineties. And me representing the 2000s."
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Source: VQR
Published: Oct. 1, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4211 words)
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
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Source: Longreads
Published: Nov. 18, 2016
Tim Robbins’s Prison Improv Classes Make Inmates Less Likely to Re-Offend
A look at the Actors Gang Prison Project, an improv workshop actors Tim Robbins and Sabra Williams have been leading for inmates for ten years, which has been shown to reduce recidivism rates.
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Source: New York Magazine
Published: Nov. 14, 2016
Length: 8 minutes (2092 words)
Chris Kraus, Female Antihero
Almost 20 years after the release of I Love Dick—her autobiographical novel about a married woman filmmaker’s unrequited obsession with a critic—Chris Kraus has become an antihero for a new audience of readers, and watchers of Jill Solloway’s adaptation for Amazon Prime.
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Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov. 14, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2917 words)
The Barnacle Queens of the Spanish Seaside
Matt Goulding profiles the González sisters of Galicia, four women thriving in the dangerous, male-dominated field of percebes, or gooseneck barnacles, a rare Spanish delicacy. Adapted from Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain’s Food Culture.
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Source: Roads & Kingdoms
Published: Nov. 11, 2016
Length: 25 minutes (6300 words)
Michael Chabon Is An Underdog On Top Of The World
A sprawling profile of low-key, down-to-earth Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, whose new novel, Moonglow, out next week, is based on his grandfather’s deathbed confessions to him.
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Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Nov. 15, 2016
Length: 23 minutes (5910 words)
I Spent Four Years Trying to Get My Book Optioned for a Movie. All I Got Were Two Belgian Waffles.
This personal essay is a year old, but like hope, this story springs eternal. Except in Hollywood, where hope lives and dies in endless meetings where promises are made in a dialect designed to conceal the unpredictability of the film industry while still feeding your hopes.
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Source: The New Republic
Published: Feb. 11, 2015
Length: 7 minutes (1789 words)
When the Devil Enters
An Italian town is plagued by mysterious fires for years, leading scientists, law enforcement, and the Catholic church to get involved.
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Source: The Atavist
Published: Nov. 18, 2016
Length: 46 minutes (11586 words)