Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
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Ya’aburnee, Four Ways
A family curse, a grandfather, a pet, a friend—and one untranslatable word to encompass them all.
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My Mustache, My Self
A quarantine facial-hair experiment led Wesley Morris to consider his Blackness, maleness, and self.
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All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards
Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.
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‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’
“A new exhibition focuses on the labor behind the lobsters, caviar, and martinis that helped define early-twentieth-century travel.”
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Best of 2023: The Audience Awards
The 10 editor picks that stood out to our readers.
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Defining Color
“A deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral, bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william.”
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George Bell Served 24 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Learning to Live Again.
“After a quarter century behind bars, he was exonerated for the 1996 crime and received the largest payout ever from New York City. But money can’t buy back all that time.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
“Good teachers teach students how to find the pattern, and how to find the deviance: how to see that different things are actually the same thing, or, sometimes, that what look like the same things are in fact different. I want my students to know what I hope other people are also teaching my children: […]
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Into the Darkness
Germany’s Black Forest faces a future of transformation. So do the people who have lived there for centuries.
