[New post] The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Longreads posted: "This week, we're sharing stories from Adam Serwer, Alexandra Marvar, Timothy Snyder, Gaby Del Valle, and Sulaiman Addonia. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. 1. The New Reconstruction Adam Serwer | The Atlantic | September" New post on Longreads The Top 5 Longreads of the Week by Longreads This week, we're sharing stories from Adam Serwer, Alexandra Marvar, Timothy Snyder, Gaby Del Valle, and Sulaiman Addonia. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. 1. The New Reconstruction Adam Serwer | The Atlantic | September 8, 2020 | 30 minutes (7,613 words) "There has never been an anti-racist majority in American history; there may be one today in the racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of voters radicalized by the abrupt transition from the hope of the Obama era to the cruelty of the Trump age. All political coalitions are eventually torn apart by their contradictions, but America has never seen a coalition quite like this." 2. The Unfinished Story of Emmett Till's Final Journey Alexandra Marvar | GEN | September 3, 2020 | 22 minutes (5,559 words) "Till was murdered 65 years ago. Sites of commemoration across the Mississippi Delta still struggle with what's history and what's hearsay." 3. What Ails America Timothy Snyder | New York Review of Books | September 3, 2020 | 8 minutes (4,700 words) "We would like to think we have health care that incidentally involves some wealth transfer; what we actually have is wealth transfer that incidentally involves some health care." 4. Waiting to Be Thrown Out Gaby Del Valle | The Verge | September 8, 2020 | 33 minutes (8,280 words) Following the story of one Cameroonian, Gaby Del Valle dives deep into how video teleconferencing technology in the U.S.'s immigration courts fuels the deportation machine. 5. The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home Sulaiman Addonia | LitHub | September 8, 2020 | 6 minutes (1,627 words) "Learning a language as an adult or in your teens, especially with a history of repeated migrations between languages and countries, is extraordinarily difficult. It isn't just about swallowing new words like passion fruit that glides down your throat. It's like chewing on stones breaking your teeth in order to seed the foundations of that new language on your tongue already heavy with many idioms." Longreads | September 11, 2020 at 10:29 am | Tags: Adam Serwer, Alexandra Marvar, Gaby Del Valle, GEN, LitHub, New York Review of Books, Sulaiman Addonia, The Atlantic, the verge, Timothy Snyder | Categories: Nonfiction, Top 5 | URL: https://wp.me/p4KhvY-Bpg Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Longreads. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://longreads.com/2020/09/11/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-339/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com