A writer recollects her family history by excavating memories buried in Singapore’s reclaimed land.
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Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
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The Memory Maker
OpenAI’s Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Aviv, Clare Gerada, Fatima Syed, Leslie Jamison, and Deb Olin Unferth.
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Bad Dog
“A helpful way to think of it is that to love another animal so different and useless is to remind ourselves of how strange, complex, and irresponsible our behavior as humans can be.”
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The Buddy System
There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.
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There’s Gold in the Hills
In the wide, quiet spaces of BLM land, I heard echoes of a past we’ve buried—and a future we still might save.
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By All Measures
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
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Well Without Water
Haunted by a running tap in prison, a man grows obsessed with water waste and climate change, pushing him to the edge.
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99 Problems: The Ice Cream Truck’s Surprising History
From crime panics to TikTok, summer’s favorite vehicle has driven a bumpy road.
