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Analyzing the ‘Bimbo’: A Reading List on Hollywood Blondes
The source of glamour, sex, and transgression? Or a carefully crafted persona? A closer look at the Hollywood blonde.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Crime, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Great Fiber-Optic Fraudster of Alaska
To this day, only Elizabeth Pierce knows why she defrauded partners and investors by forging contract signatures.
Posted inFeature
Finding a Path in a Broken System
Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.
Posted inStory
Something About the Present
“And so I remember that it’s this moment I want, before it becomes the next, where anything could happen and anything could not.”
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Story
For the Love of Wordle: A Reading List on Puzzles and Games
Seven longreads on the communal pastime of puzzles, games, and crosswords.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?
“Last year, tech companies reported over 45 million online photos and videos of children being sexually abused — more than double what they found the previous year… Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology. Tech companies, the government, and the authorities are no match.” Content Note: “Articles in this […]
Posted inFeature
The Buddy System
There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.
Posted inNonfiction
Secret Museums
Struggling with the world’s, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.
Posted inNonfiction
The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell
Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
