How the Soon-to-Reopen Folger Shakespeare Library Came to BeThe title page of one of the Folger’s First Folios. Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library Future titan of industry Henry Clay Folger Jr. lived the first part of his life in Dickensian poverty.
America’s Worst Time ZoneI get meeting times wrong all the time. I mean to schedule an hour earlier or an hour later, but then I get mixed up. The problem is, I always have to compensate for where I am, which is in the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
Given its intimacy with the body and deep play on form and function, furniture is a ripely ambiguous artform of its ownJust outside Paddington Station in London, on the side of a corporate building at 50 Eastbourne Terrace, there is a large clock.
Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?It happened the first time over dinner. I was saying something to my husband, who grew up in Paris where we live, and suddenly couldn’t get the word out. The culprit was the “r.” For the previous few months, I had been trying to perfect the French “r.
Three Strings: Past, Present, and FutureThis story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Sometimes the past comes up in unexpected ways, like roots turning up the sidewalk, refusing to stay flat beneath the concrete.
Tucker Carlson went after Israel — and his fellow conservatives are furiousCarlson mainstreamed antisemitism for a long time, and conservatives seemed not to care. Then he set his sights on Israel. The New York Times once described Tucker Carlson’s Fox News hour as “the most racist show in the history of cable news.
The Psychology of Getting High—a LotFamous rapper Snoop Dogg is well known for his love of the herb: He once indicated that he inhales around five to 10 blunts per day—extreme even among chronic cannabis users.
Nellie Bowles’s Failed ProvocationsThe journalist Nellie Bowles writes a column called “TGIF” for the Free Press, a new media company she started with her wife, Bari Weiss.
How Public School Leaders Upstaged Republicans and the Ivy LeagueThe House of Representatives is one of Washington’s most raucous forums, a free-for-all of personalities with profiles to raise and points to score. But it turns out that the rough-and-tumble of steering a public school district — board sessions, P.T.A.
Environmental journalism is under attackAttacks against environmental journalists have risen dramatically across the world, according to a report released by UNESCO to commemorate World Press Freedom Day. UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists surveyed 905 journalists across 129 countries.
Discovering the First Other EarthsYes, you can get bad coffee in Vienna. Vienna is known for its beautiful cafés, where philosophers, poets, and scientists have found inspiration over endless cups of fantastic coffee for hundreds of years.
Two years of war have impoverished many UkrainiansAS SOON AS the volunteers appear, those that have been waiting for them on Kyiv’s central Independence Square (known as Maidan) form a queue, shuffle forward and take a warm drink and a freshly cooked meal. An elderly man tries to calm a noisy outburst from his mentally disabled adult son.
Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that matteredThis case is about delaying his trial, and the GOP-controlled Supreme Court has given him everything he could reasonably hope for and more. On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v.
Justice Stephen Breyer's blunt message to Supreme Court conservatives: 'Slow down'Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retired from the high court in 2022 but isn't finished prodding his former conservative colleagues to abandon what he sees as an aggressive tack to the right in how they interpret the law. "Slow down.
What Counts as ConsciousnessSome years ago, when he was still living in southern California, neuroscientist Christof Koch drank a bottle of Barolo wine while watching The Highlander, and then, at midnight, ran up to the summit of Mount Wilson, the 5,710-foot peak that looms over Los Angeles.