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Vagabonds, Crafty Bauds, and the Loyal Huzza: A History of London at Night
Matthew Beaumont | Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London | Verso | March 2015 | 37 minutes (10,129 words) Below is a chapter excerpted from Nightwalking, by Matthew Beaumont, as recommended by...
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Death Made Material: The Hair Jewelry of The Brontës
Deborah Lutz | The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects | W.W. Norton | May 2015 | 42 minutes (6,865 words) Below is an excerpt from the book The Brontë Cabinet, by Deborah Lutz, as...
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Well-Aimed and Powerful
Margaret Lazarus Dean | Leaving Orbit | Graywolf Press | May 2015 | 21 minutes (5,246 words) The following is an excerpt from Leaving Orbit by Margaret Dean Lazarus, winner of the Graywolf Press...
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Gravity
Elizabeth Bachner | Hip Mama | June 2015 | 8 minutes (1,874 words) This essay, recommended by Longreads contributor Maud Newton, is by the writer Elizabeth Bachner and appears in the current issue...
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The Missing History of Ravensbrück, The Nazi Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm | Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women | Nan A. Talese | March 2015 | 48 minutes (13,071 words) Below is a chapter excerpted from Ravensbrück, by Sarah...
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Love, Identity, and Genderqueer Family Making
Maggie Nelson | The Argonauts | Graywolf Press | May 2015 | 17 minutes (4,137 words) Published to great acclaim earlier this year, The Argonauts blends memoir and critical theory to explore the meaning...
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Desperate Characters
Paula Fox | Desperate Characters | W.W. Norton & Company | 1970 | 16 minutes (4,046 words) Below is an excerpt from Desperate Characters, the novel by Paula Fox first published in 1970 and...
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‘The Truth of Life’: Paula Fox on the Re- (Re-) Release of Her 1970 Novel
Sari Botton | Longreads | July 2015 | 5 minutes (1,250 words) This year, on the 45th anniversary of its publication, W.W. Norton & Company has re-(re-)released Desperate Characters, a novel by...
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Who Killed Dolly Wilde?
Megan Mayhew Bergman | Almost Famous Women | Scribner | July 2015 | 36 minutes (6,383 words) Our latest Longreads Exclusive is a short story from Almost Famous Women, a collection by Megan Mayhew...
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The Wandering Years
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | The American Scholar | Summer 2015 | 23 minutes (4,685 words) Our latest Longreads Exclusive is a series of travel journal entries adapted from poet and painter Lawrence...
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In the Grand Scheme of Things
Hana Schank | From ‘The Edge of Normal’ | June 2015 | 11 minutes (2,634 words) The following is an excerpt from The Edge of Normal, Hana Schank’s story about what it’s like to raise a child with...
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My Undertaker, My Pimp
Jay Kirk | Harper’s | March 2002 | 29 minutes (7,333 words) This essay by Jay Kirk first appeared in the March 2002 issue of Harper’s, where it was edited by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Our thanks to Kirk...
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Fox and Friends
Rachael Maddux | Longreads | August 2015 | 21 minutes (5,232 words) The hounds of Shakerag Hounds, the oldest mounted fox hunt in the state of Georgia, are trained as pups to heed every note of their...
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The Art of Humorous Nonfiction: A Beer in Brooklyn with the King of the A-Heds
Mary Pilon | Longreads | August 2015 | 10 minutes (2,724 words) “Why wait until the next story about coagulated fat in sewers comes along when you can read this one now?” “All the world’s Grape Nuts...
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Why Do We Judge Virgins?
Jessica Gross | Longreads | August 2015 | 14 minutes (3,532 words) Rachel Hills’ first book, The Sex Myth, presents a radical deconstruction of our cultural narratives about sex. Hills, an Australian...
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A San Francisco Story
Leah Rose | Longreads | August 2015 | 12 minutes (2,876 words) On a Saturday afternoon in February, a group of 15 men stood chatting on the back patio of the Eagle, a leather-themed gay bar on 12th...
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Hygge: The Dark Side of Danish Comfort, a Story by Dorthe Nors
Dorthe Nors | Longreads | August 2015 | 8 minutes (1,904 words) Our latest Longreads Exclusive is a previously unpublished short story by Danish writer Dorthe Nors, as chosen by Longreads...
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Just Below the Surface
Summer Brennan | The Oyster War | Counterpoint Press | August 2015 | 20 minutes (5,042 words) The following is an excerpt from Summer Brennan’s excellent The Oyster War: the True Story of a Small Farm,...
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Loving Books in a Dark Age
Michael Pye | The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe | Pegasus Books | April 2015 | 31 minutes (8,498 words) Below is a chapter excerpted from The...
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The Lost Summer
Elissa Strauss | Longreads | August 2015 | 15 minutes (3,841 words) Below is the story of a single mother and her daughter. Names and certain identifying details have been changed to protect their...
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