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One Man’s Journey from State Prison to a Revered San Francisco Restaurant
“Even more importantly, Salazar believed in Thomas as a man—a good man.”
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The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting
“A comprehensive engineering and operational analysis of the Internet Archive.”
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Richard Misrach on the Eerie Grandeur of Global Trade
“Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.”
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Thomas Keller Asked Me to Leave The French Laundry. It Turned Into My Most Extraordinary Night as a Critic.
“There’s a slight quaver in the chef’s voice, and he tells me he is nervous. This is not something he is accustomed to doing, he says — asking a critic to leave.”
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The Wrong Stalker
“He was locked up for a dangerous infatuation. Nothing was as it seemed.”
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How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco
“When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.”
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Her Job is to Remove Homeless People from SF’s Parks. Her Methods are Extraordinary
“To watch park ranger Amanda Barrows is to be faced with a disturbing question: If this is what it takes to help one unhoused person, how can we manage thousands?”
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I Drove a Cybertruck Around SF Because I Am a Smart, Cool Alpha Male
“You can see my thirst from the f—king moon, so why not drive an equally conspicuous truck?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
After the flood, twisted roles, the joy of emptiness, data disasters, and family road trips.
