The Week’s Best Longreads
The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New York Times Magazine On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Yasiel Puig’s Untold Journey to the Dodgers Jesse Katz, Los Angeles The shocking saga of Major League Baseball’s most controversial player.
READ MORE The Cheerleader Murders
Capitalism Unbound Timothy Shenk, The Nation Thomas Piketty and the new millennial Marxists on the scourge of inequality.’
The Light Therapeutic Rosie Blau, More Intelligent Life In living memory, our relationship with light has changed radically—and not for the better.
READ MORE Ehrenreich Gives God a Going Over
Attack of the Paparazzi Stephen Rodrick, The Rolling Stone On the hunt with the wolves of Hollywood.
The Concrete Abyss Lisa Guenther, Aeon We know solitary confinement annihilates the minds of its victims—but what does it do to the rest of us?
READ MORE Mark Twain, Writing Coach
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