The Questions That We're Not Asking

Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Essays Editor Sari Botton, and Contributing Editor Danielle Jackson share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.   

This week:

[2:18] “Who Gave You the Right to Tell that Story?” (Lila Shapiro, October 30 2019, Vulture)

[5:35] "How To Unlearn Everything"(Alexander Chee, October 30 2019, Vulture)

[8:08] “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” (Zadie Smith, October 24, 2019, The New York Review Of Books)

[16:02] “Ten Years Ago, I Called Out David Letterman. This Month, We Sat Down to Talk.” (Nell Scovell, October 30, 2019, Vanity Fair)

[25:15] "Is it time for American cities to stop growing?" (Vinnie Rotondaro, October 14, 2019, Vox)

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