“Aaron somehow hailed a taxi. My brother was staining the pavement crimson, but this cab driver, this stranger, stopped. He helped Aaron carry my brother to the cab’s back seat. He surely lost money later that night while toweling blood from cushion crevices.” Did you know that more than one-third of web pages that existed […]
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Award Tour (and the Week’s Top 5)
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
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Turf War
Seeing alternatives makes you realize how ubiquitous turfgrass is—though anyone who’s ever wrestled with their own Kentucky bluegrass doesn’t need to be reminded.
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Full House, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose
When I was 10 or so, my grandmother came to stay with us for what my parents called “a while.” Longer than a visit, shorter than getting your mail forwarded.
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Two Incisive Excerpts (And Our Top 5)
How Mac Barnett got inspired to write books for kids, a tense, deeply reported crime story, and our weekly Top 5.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
We’re recommending stories by Danny Chau, Annalisa Quinn, Bijan Stephen, Jordan Michelman, and Anna Wiener.
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Open Season on Illegal Hunting
All our recent editors’ picks and an excerpt from “Big Game,” a deeply reported piece about taking down a group of notorious poachers.