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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Gift Thinking
“The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy.”
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Building a Nest
“Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.”
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Outsourcing Your Appetite to YouTube
In this essay, co-published with Cake Zine, Adam Dalva writes about Ozempic, his fixation with watching food influencers eat, and a visit to a steakhouse.
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Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing
“Sarah Viren talks to the author of ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.’”
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
“’Words are the only victors,’ Rushdie wrote in his last novel, ‘Victory City.'”
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My Grandpa, the Fascist?
“An old family album sent me on a journey through Italy’s dark past in Libya.”
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600? Is That Even Possible?
We like to think Longreads furnishes more than simply emergency reading, and that’s certainly true this week.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories from Ivy Knight; David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg; Eva Holland; John DeVore; and Nathaniel Rich.
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A Forgotten Deportation, a New Questionnaire Series, and Our Top 5
An essay about a forgotten deportation and the reckoning it left behind, a glimpse into Maria Popova’s writing and reading life, and our five recommended stories of the week.
