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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition, we recommend stories from Eli Saslow, Mitchell S. Jackson, Adam Ciralsky, Heidi Lasher, and Noah Rawlings.
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Food, Shared Humanity, and the Week’s Top 5
“Once weekly fare, I now have cholent only a few times a year; I, too, am no longer observant. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Which is to say that, while I stand by the choices I’ve made and the life I am choosing to live—different from how I was raised, but no less […]
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A Diary of Gaza’s Destruction
“A Palestinian poet chronicles the war raging around him.”
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A Septic Tank in This Tiny Arizona Town Could Crack a 2006 Cold Case
“Keith King vanished 19 years ago in Seligman. A private detective thinks he knows where King’s body is — and who killed him.”
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Poets in the Machine
Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
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Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
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The Worst Air Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of
“In the early days of flight, airships were hailed as the future of war. Then disaster struck the USS Akron.”
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The Nurse Who Names the Dead
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
