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The Weather-Changing Conspiracy Theory That Will Never End
“Why are some people convinced that nefarious experiments are happening in the distant Alaskan wilderness?”
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Luck’s Children
“Abraham Jiménez Enoa draws us into the underground network that runs La Bolita, Cuba’s wildy popular—and illegal—daily lottery.”
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The Weather Man
“‘After all these years,’ he says, ‘I’m still a weather geek.'”
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All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards
Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.
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Too Short’s Long (and Very Raunchy) Life in Rap
“The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements.”
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Disposable Heroes
“Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of ‘coming forward.’”
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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 Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Deaths in donation bins, the Hardy boys, MAGA slop, billionaire playgrounds, and nostalgia for the complicated.
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20 Years Later: Little Brother, “The Minstrel Show”
Like minstrelsy, Little Brother’s album shows you one hand, convinces you of one thing, while something else works behind the scenes.
