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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Katie Barnes, Rachel Handler, Alex Hawkins, Lila Shapiro, and Raksha Vasudevan.
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How Concerned Citizens Drove a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine
Christopher Pohlhaus wanted to build a fascist training compound in America’s whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.
Posted inReading List
‘The Evanescence is the Thing’: Five Writers on the Power of the Dance Floor
Five reads on dancing, techno music, and rave and club culture.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Labour of Love
“Again and again, the health-care system exploits the sense of obligation we have to one another.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Liam Taylor, Piers Gelly, Christopher Cox, Anna Russell, and Lisa Russ Spaar.
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 inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Notable reads by Atef Abu Saif, Sonia Smith, James McNaughton, Dorothy Wickenden, and Kevin Koenig.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: subsea storytelling, a preservation paradox, achieving serpentine symbiosis, an investigation into infinity, and a marijuana mystery.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On Mistaking Whales
“Here whales have been homes. A practical space, shelter and host to meals and births and deaths. Host to the least abstract kinds of love. Familial, romantic, parental. Here whales have made those intimacies, by giving people the capacity to live.”
