“The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?”
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Tender, Yet Creepy
“Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: metal medicine, hyped humanoids, carnival crossroads, divine defiance, and optimization obsession.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Carolyn Ariella Sofia, Joy Williams, Ben Lerner, Steve Yarbrough, and Elizabeth Spiers.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Eric McHenry, Michael W. Clune, Patrick Galbraith, Jay Miller, and Harley Rustad.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Acid Media
“How perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD.”
Posted inReading List
Map Room: A Radical Reading List on Cartographic Power, Perspective, and Possibility
Seven stories celebrating our fascination with maps.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Ant Geopolitics
“Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Adlai Coleman, Dan McQuade, Ronald W. Dworkin, Rebecca Burns, and Devon O’Neil.
Posted inFeature
A Year in Reading: Restraint as Wisdom
We live in a culture built on ignoring limits—of land, of bodies, of attention—and these stories kept returning me to that truth.
