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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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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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Franklin, Reconsidered: An Essay by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore | Introduction to The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin | Everyman’s Library | September 2015 | 18 minutes (4,968 words) Below is Jill Lepore’s introductory essay to...
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Atomic Summer: An Essay by Joni Tevis
Joni Tevis | The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse | Milkweed Editions | May 2015 | 28 minutes (7,494 words) Below is Joni Tevis’s essay “Damn Cold in February: Buddy Holly,...
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I Would Rather Be Herod’s Pig: The History of a Taboo
Mark Essig | Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig | Basic Books | May 2015 | 20 minutes (5,293 words) Below is an excerpt from Lesser Beasts, by Mark Essig, as recommended by...
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Hell—Nothing Less—And Without End: Six Days in Warsaw
Miron Białoszewski | A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising | New York Review Books | translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine | October 2015 | 37 minutes (10,141 words) Below is an excerpt from A...
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How the Emperor Became Human (and MacArthur Became Divine)
Victor Sebestyen | 1946: The Making of the Modern World | Pantheon Books | November 2015 | 23 minutes (6,202 words) Below is an excerpt from 1946, by Victor Sebestyen, as recommended by Longreads...
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Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist
Patrick Leigh Fermor | Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete | New York Review Books | November 2015 | 31 minutes (8,432 words) Below is an excerpt from Abducting a General, Patrick Leigh...
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Narcissiana: On Collecting
Fredrik Sjöberg | The Fly Trap | Pantheon | translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal | June 2015 | 12 minutes (3,476 words) Below is an excerpt from The Fly Trap, by Fredrik Sjöberg, as recommended...
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Bad News: Censorship, Fear & Genocide Memorials
Anjan Sundaram | Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship | Doubleday | January 2016 | 27 minutes (7,197 words) Below is an excerpt from Bad News, by Anjan Sundaram, as recommended by Longreads...
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A Brief History of Solitary Confinement
Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | Introduction to Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement | The New Press | February 2016 | 20 minutes (5,288 words) Below is Jean Casella and...
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
Chris Jennings | Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism | Random House | January 2016 | 29 minutes (7,852 words) Below is an excerpt from Paradise Now, Chris Jennings’ look at the history of...
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Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy
Kevin Bales | Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World | Spiegel & Grau | January 2016 | 34 minutes (9,162 words) Below is an excerpt from Blood and Earth, by...
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A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson
Jerome Charyn | A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century | Bellevue Literary Press | March 2016 | 24 minutes (6,471 words) Below is an excerpt from A Loaded Gun, by Jerome Charyn, who...
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What Ever Happened to Planet Vulcan?
Thomas Leveson | The Hunt for Vulcan: … And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe | Random House | November 2015 | 27 minutes (7,305 words) The...
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A Dead Superhero Is a Marvelous Corpse
Ramzi Fawaz | The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics | New York University Press| January 2016 | 25 minutes (6,662 words) The excerpt below is adapted from The...
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My Dinner With Rasputin
Teffi | Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi | New York Review Books Classics | May 2016 | 39 minutes (10,692 words) The essay below appears in the new collection Tolstoy, Rasputin,...
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Postwar New York: The Supreme Metropolis of the Present
David Reid | The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia | Pantheon | March 2016 | 31 minutes (8,514 words) The excerpt below is adapted from The Brazen Age, by...
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Home Is Where the Fraud Is
David Dayen | Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud | The New Press | May 2016 | 26 minutes (7,150 words) Below is an excerpt from Chain of Title,...
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Women Were Included in the Civil Rights Act as a Joke
Gillian Thomas | Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work | St. Martin’s Press | March 2016 | 20 minutes (5,287 words) The excerpt below is...
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