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3. Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? Alex Mayyasi | Priceonomics | May 10, 2013 | 12 minutes (3,246 words) Why is scientific research still stuck in a model that requires that work be published in a…

Hissing and spitting like an animal, high tide surged across the sands of Virginia Key. Dark waves broke over the jagged shore and scattered flotsam on the stones like tea leaves at the bottom of a…

1. Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin. Mac McClelland | Mother Jones | April 29, 2013 | 33 minutes (8,317 words) Deinstitutionalization moved thousands of mentally ill people out of hospitals and into…

4. When War Came A.J. Sherman | New England Review | April 8, 2013 | 20 minutes (4,955 words) The author recalls a childhood summer in New Jersey's countryside in 1939 before World War II:"Toward…

On their last day they visited a town where they had heard there’d been a number of civilian casualties. They were spending the afternoon with a family—cousins of one of the…

To use a tennis analogy, I played all four corners in an attempt to interview clients. I hit up escort friends of mine with long-terms regulars, old clients who were articulate and thoughtful and…

This week's Member Pick comes from Antonia Crane, the Los Angeles-based writer whose work for The Rumpus has been featured on Longreads in the past. We're excited to feature "Yellow," a story about her relationship with her mother, about stripping, and about loss. The piece will be published in Black Clock #17, due out this summer, and it's adapted from her forthcoming book Spent. Thanks to Antonia and Black Clock for letting us share this story with our members.

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