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Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World?
“Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them unreadable. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing to decipher them.”
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My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon
“Today, I will explain to my healthy transplanted heart why, in what may be a matter of days or weeks at best, she — well, we — will die.”
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A Year in Reading: The Wounds That Bind
On the hard-hitting, unforgettable stories of 2024.
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Inside New Balance’s Plans to Topple the Global Sneaker Hierarchy
“The $86 billion global sneaker market has a new major player. Here’s how it happened.”
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The After, and Our Top 5
An excerpt from the graphic memoir “Opioids & Organs,” the latest from The Atavist, and our Top 5.
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Finding the Magic in Writing with Lidia Yuknavitch
On shitty first, second, and third drafts; embracing the struggle to write; and more.
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Holograms of the Holocaust (and Our Top 5)
“Over many decades, my grandmother gave responses to thousands of questions, wrote tens of thousands of words, and spoke for hours and hours while tapes rolled. She would be, in other words, the perfect candidate for AI reanimation.” In my household, the transition from summer to fall has been tough. Lately, to help my daughter […]
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Braydon Bringhurst Versus the Beast
“Is this mountain biking’s greatest uphill achievement?”
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Open Season on Illegal Hunting
All our recent editors’ picks and an excerpt from “Big Game,” a deeply reported piece about taking down a group of notorious poachers.
