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A tribute to our feathered friends and four more excellent, hand-picked reads.

Aymann Ismail answers our questionnaire and an excerpt of The Atavist‘s latest story.

A look at the environmental cost of the booming vinyl record industry.

In this edition: Concrete memories, grief science, captive cats, relentless pain, and myth meets reality.

Essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert answers the Longreads Questionnaire.

Angelica Calabrese on family, memory, and the almond groves of Italy.

A new reading list on conlangs from Kanya Kanchana.

“We could all use a little silence, a little levity. To that end, and with the peak of summer upon us, I’ve pulled together some of my favorite longreads that remind you of the joy it is to be human, even in this increasingly inhumane world.” Last week, I was on a sun lounger on […]

Pick up a banjo, or maybe a javelin.

“At the bottom of what motivates me is a very optimistic, very joyful commitment to the idea that the more you learn of the world the better.”