In Canada, Millennials, for the most part, are the first generation that doesn’t expect to achieve intergenerational mobility—when kids do better financially than their parents. Housing prices have increased. Inflation is up. Interest rates remain high and wages have not kept pace. It’s hard to find a place to rent; the dream of owning a home has become...

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.In this week’s edition:Land stolen from the formerly enslaved Ex-NFL players fighting for compensation A Chicago school custodian’s dark secret Nature as a salve for depression The curious state between sleep and wakefulness1. 40 Acres and a LieAlexia...

It’s no secret that some former NFL players have struggled with memory loss, depression, personality changes, and movement disorders after repeated concussions and sub-concussive hits endured during their playing days. They denied it at first, but the NFL eventually admitted a link between football and degenerative brain disease. Players eventually...

Experiencing a lucid dream for the first time, after a long night of insomnia, sparked curiosity for writer Claire L. Evans. For Noēma, she surveys modern dream science and learns what luminaries have had to say of experiencing a wakeful altered reality before learning a mindfulness method to open the door to lucid dreaming for herself.But our dream...

In this pensive personal essay, Jarod K. Anderson describes a life of constant to dos and responsibilities, of debt and burnout, of aimlessness and depression. He reflects on how, at a very low point in his life, he rediscovered nature—and found beauty and hope in the wilderness and wildlife of Ohio. This piece is an extract from his new memoir, Something...

Reinhold Kulle was an SS member in the elite Death’s Head division and a guard at Gross-Rosen concentration camp. After the war, when Kulle had a final visa interview at the US Consulate in Frankfurt in 1957, he kept those dark details about his past a secret. In this excerpt from Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil, Michael Soffer recounts...