“After years of relative quiet, the public is meeting ‘Andre 2.0’ — a pickleball booster, an open book and a guy eager to build a less tortured relationship with competition.”
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How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments
“A new show featuring decommissioned statues forces a reckoning with American history at a moment when Donald Trump is trying to stop just that.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories by Francisco Cantú, Tom Bartlett, Jessica Lucas, Nigel Warburton, and Sadie Dingfelder.
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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
“He’s as flawed a human being as anyone else, one who’s still wrestling with questions about how best to move through life with a modicum of grace and compassion.”
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It’s the Music You Hear All Day, Without Ever Noticing
“Sync music” has become the soundtrack to our lives — whether we realize it or not.
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‘You’re Going to Lose Your Mind’: My Three-Day Retreat in Total Darkness
“The author spent days in a room with no light. Who would he be when he emerged?”
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What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero
“The Old Leatherman, a sort of real-life Northeastern Sasquatch, gave me an excuse to step outside my own life.”
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‘Actually Really Sacred’: A George Saunders Reading List
Nine essays and interviews from literature’s favorite laureate of compassion.
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Does Luck Exist?
“Lee John Whittington, a philosopher of luck, didn’t think ‘unluckiness’ was a quality people had. Then he met his wife.”
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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.”
