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Who’s Afraid of Spatchcocked Chicken?
“Squeamishness around meat is embedded into the English language — and by extension, Western attitudes towards the realities of meat.”
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The Shadowy Business of International Education
“Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it.”
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The Woman on the Line
“Every day, the calls come. She can tell quickly who might die.”
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Listen
“A story about what happens when the people and institutions that are supposed to protect, fail.”
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Catch and Release
“Not everyone gets to publish their first book alongside their mentor.”
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The Safest Place
“In five years Dante McFallo went from White House honoree to dying in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Day.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s edition highlights stories by Elissa Nadworny and Claire Harbage, Thomas Lake, Jeff Sharlet, Jasmine Attia, and Brett Martin.
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‘Stay Away From Miller’
A pioneering humanities program shaped a generation of students and brought acclaim to a public high school in Los Angeles. But beneath the excellence lurked a culture of abuse.
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Flat Places
“Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing.”
