We read to lose ourselves, and to understand the lives of others, but we also read in part because it makes us better thinkers.
Longreads
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: loving a killer; GRASE under fire; the marvelous mundane; Texas on two wheels; and the man who would be T. rex king.
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Curiosity FTW
Stay open to the obvious, and you may just learn more than you expect.
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How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff
Writing is always going to be hard and why it’s worth the struggle.
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To Guiltless Pleasures
Ideas of propriety or coolness are the killer of dreams.
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith
The All My Dead Cats and Other Losses author and Flytrap co-founder on grief, breaking and fixing things, and Alice Wong.
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This Top 5 Is For the Birds
A tribute to our feathered friends and four more excellent, hand-picked reads.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from William Finnegan, Meghan Flaherty, Kulsoom Ijaz, Amy Weiss-Meyer, and Dan Werb.
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Aymann Ismail Speaks and an Atavist Excerpt
Aymann Ismail answers our questionnaire and an excerpt of The Atavist‘s latest story.
Posted inThe Atavist Magazine
God’s Children
The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern medicine, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor to save their lives?