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Issue Fourteen · Latitudes · Autumn

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Issue Fourteen — Latitudes
12Aug

Essay

The Long Way Round the Harbour

Two summers walking the same four miles, and everything that quietly changed.

6,100 words · 24 min · Ines Okonjo

05Aug

Reported

A Library That Refuses to Close

Inside the last all-night reading room in the Midwest, one shift at a time.

8,400 words · 33 min · Daniel Reyes

22Jul

Notebook

Letters to a Slower Editor

Twelve years of margin notes on working at the speed of the sentence.

3,900 words · 15 min · Margit Halloran

09Jul

Essay

What the Tide Leaves Behind

Fieldwork, grief, and forty years of one family's shoreline notebooks.

5,200 words · 20 min · Peter Aalto

27Jun

Profile

The Printer of Wharf Street

Sixty years of letterpress, and a deadline he has never once missed.

4,700 words · 18 min · Ruth Vandermeer

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