This week we are sharing stories from Jessica Wilkerson, Meg Bernhard, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Jiayang Fan, and Alexander Wells.
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What Are Memories, Anyway?
The brain is a funny thing. You give it the right cues of depth and immersion, and something that would otherwise be a memory of an image becomes a memory of an experience.
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I Gave Myself a Month to Make One New Friend. How Hard Could That Be?
“Americans have become terrible at making and keeping friends.”
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What Does It Take to Actually Cook Like a Tradwife?
“Was all of that work actually worth it?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Notable stories on chasing manhood, naming Gaza’s dead, searching the stacks for a rare book, leaving music behind, and opting out.
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“Diana’s Piano” And All The Cats I’ve Loved And Lost
“The years I’ve spent with these cats—with Detective in our house, with Walker in a small apartment, with Mango on the porch next door—is worth all the feelings of loss.”
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Chasing the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
“At sixty-eight years old, the photographer returns time and again to this sliver of eastern Arkansas to try to secure an image of the bird.”
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The True Power of ‘Succession’ Comes From Writing Inside the Box
“The HBO show was known for witty jabs and f-word-laden insults. But perhaps its biggest achievement was ending on its own terms—and its writing through lines along the way.”
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Sitting in the Waiting Room
“We wait constantly, for a variety of outcomes and eventualities, some of which we can’t see coming.”
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What Survives
“It’s normal to want to repair what’s broken, folly to repair what breaks us and keeps on breaking.”
