“Tomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities.”
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The Scientist Using Bugs to Help Solve Murders
“Magni’s first idea was to test Di Muro’s clothes for the presence of plankton to partially verify his alibi.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Kelley Engelbrecht, Sam Anderson, Lindsey Liles, Jeannette Cooperman, and Claire McNear.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Highlighting notable reads from Jasper Craven, Lisa Kaltenegger, Adam Iscoe, Lisa Abend, and Paul Schrodt.
How Do You Make a Movie About the Holocaust?
“With ‘The Zone of Interest,’ Jonathan Glazer is just the latest director to confront the problem.”
Life on Display: A Reading List on Museums
A reading list on how museums reflect culture.
A Dangerous Solo Hike, the Vanishing of Aging Parents, and Our Top 5
“I came to a shack with a small, white-haired man inside. I assumed he had been guarding Devil’s Bridge for centuries. I answered his riddles three and he gestured for me to sign in. At the end of his hand was a damp pile of papers and a pen on a gray string. Like most […]
A Year in Reading: A Shift in Perspective
The stories that sparked awe and made me think differently in 2024.
The Unconcerned
On Venice, underwater: “It was like a game, a dream, a film. H imagined the city as a future dive site, and I agreed it would be stunning. But we were not the kind of people who would do this, become catastrophe tourists, I said. And yet there we were.”


