“Through hosting two decades of Top Chef, writing four books, and opening restaurants across the country, the celebrity chef never stopped showing up to cook in the kitchen of Craft, his pioneering New York restaurant. Until he decided to close it.”
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Gift Thinking
“The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy.”
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Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. I Bet Against My Own Husband.
“You can wager on war, elections, awards shows, reality TV, scientific progress, and—in the case of writer Carrie Sun—your own spouse. If you want to play, you have to wonder: Are you smarter than an inside trader?”
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Lost Vegas
“Everyone inside America’s most flailing destination city has a theory for what’s wrong. Now I have my own.”
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Crafting Moments that Linger
ESPN writer Roberto José Andrade Franco answers The Longreads Questionnaire.
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How My Mother’s Dying Wish Took My Family to Antarctica
“What I thought was a burden was a tether across death’s divide.”
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Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!
“How a team of sleuths reportedly tracked down the Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings.”
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In a Milestone for Manhattan, a Pair of Coyotes Has Made Central Park Their Home
“For six years, two photographers have carefully followed the canines and documented their secret lives.”
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What Makes Us Better?
We read to lose ourselves, and to understand the lives of others, but we also read in part because it makes us better thinkers.
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Friend or Faux?
“Millions of people are turning to AI for companionship. They are finding the experience surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and profoundly confusing, leaving them to wonder, ‘Is this real? And does that matter?’”
