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Featured Stories
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Eureka
By Victoria Chang
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From Sea to Shining Sea
By Michael Croley
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Power Failure: On Landscape and Abandonment
By Mya Frazier
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Change Anything You Want Once I’m Dead
By Bill McKibben
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The Long-Livers
By Monica Potts
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Down and Out in Bedford Falls
By Dean Bakopoulos
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Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows
By Jori Lewis
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Ground Truth
By Natasha Trethewey
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Tennessee Waltz: Conversations with Art Spiegelman
By Ted Genoways
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The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
By Dimiter Kenarov
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The People vs. the Ayatollahs
By Kamin Mohammadi
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Three Poems
By Reginald Dwayne Betts
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A Light
By Sindya Bhano
Featured Media
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The Truth of What Happened
In Conversation with Ted Conover
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Ground Truth
By Natasha Tretheway
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What Good is Beef?
Video inspired by Siddhartha Deb’s essay
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Radio Play: The Search Zone
By Antonio Ruiz Camacho
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Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows
Video inspired by Jori Lewis’s essay
Award-Winning Work
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Jori Lewis, "Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows"
Finalist for a James Beard Award in Foodways
Featured in Best American Food and Travel Writing
Selected for Longreads Best of 2024 -
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Art Spiegelman, "Tennessee Waltz"
Finalist for an ASME Design Award for Best Print Illustrations
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Mya Frazier, "Power Failure: On Landscape and Abandonment"
Finalist for a National Magazine Award in Feature Writing
Selected for Longreads Top 5 of the Week -
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Joel Daniel Phillips, "Killing the Negative"
Finalist for an ASME Design Award for Best Illustrated Story
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Newsha Tavakolian, "The People vs. the Ayatollahs"
Finalist for an ASME Design Award for Best News and Entertainment Photo Story
