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Five bright yellow measuring tapes hanging vertically on a dark background.

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Present Tense: The Long Shadow of an Eating Disorder

by Maggie Slepian February 20, 2025February 21, 2025

Eating disorders never truly go away. They just go quiet. For a while.

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Her Greatest Hits

by Diane Mehta February 18, 2025April 8, 2025

“Maybe it’s only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover.”

A young girl seated in a wheelchair backlit by light through glass doors at the end of a long corridor.

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The Genocide the World Ignored

by Longreads February 4, 2025April 16, 2026

Ayder Comprehensive Medical Hospital was the second largest in Ethiopia and the jewel of the Tigrayan health system—and for two horrific years, it became a war zone.

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David Lynch Was Here

by Katherine Cusumano January 30, 2025February 20, 2025

A dispatch from the real Twin Peaks, where fans of the director flocked after his death.

two-panel image of male author on the left and book cover on the right that reads "Take My Name But Say It Slow"

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Letter from Manhattan 2 

by Thomas Dai January 21, 2025February 3, 2025

On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.

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The Charango

by Valerie Argentina Calvo January 16, 2025January 14, 2025

On the devastating power of music and violence.

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The Twin Bandits

by Longreads January 9, 2025April 16, 2026

“The police couldn’t figure out how the perpetrator ripped off two banks at the same time. Until they discovered there wasn’t just one robber but a pair of them: identical twin brothers.”