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How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps

by Anne Lagamayo May 11, 2023February 23, 2024

A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.

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Nathan

by Dan Musgrave May 9, 2023February 28, 2024

Language lessons with an extraordinary ape.

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Cocooning

by Samuel Ernest May 2, 2023February 29, 2024

“In coming out, my life ended. It was a personal apocalypse of many smaller revelations. The struggle that had defined me had reached its denouement of freedom—and what comes after freedom?”

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Girl Genius

by Susannah Felts April 27, 2023February 27, 2024

She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.

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The Buddy System

by Mylène Dressler April 11, 2023February 29, 2024

There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.

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A Vaccine Dispute Turns Deadly

by Longreads April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

Misinformation’s tragic toll on one California family.

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I’m Never Fine

by Joseph Lezza March 30, 2023March 4, 2024

“As a proponent of transparency, especially one who stands in opposition to the demonization of feeling, I can’t—I won’t—use the word anymore.”

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A Murder in Berlin

by Susanna Forrest March 23, 2023February 23, 2024

Crows become familiars for a writer living on the surface of a changing city.

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Age, Sex, Location

by Kira Homsher March 14, 2023February 27, 2024

Chatrooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I had to grow up and become one of them.

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Big Love

by Longreads March 8, 2023March 10, 2023

A woman, an elephant, and an uncommon love story spanning nearly half a century.

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How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps

Nathan

Cocooning

Girl Genius

The Buddy System

A Vaccine Dispute Turns Deadly

I’m Never Fine

A Murder in Berlin

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