“When music made collaboratively with other musicians goes right, I feel a budding, rising warmth and comfort. Is this my mother smiling on me?”
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The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
“As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck. Decades later, she learned why.”
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
“Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.”
My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza
“In my homeland, where we used to cook and celebrate together, my relatives are eating animal feed to keep from starving.”
The Birth of My Daughter, the Death of My Marriage
“Being an adult meant watching many possible versions of yourself whittle into just one.”
There Is No A.I.
“But we’re at the beginning of a new technological era—and the easiest way to mismanage a technology is to misunderstand it.”
What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister?
“Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from Sarah Miller, James D. Walsh, Hanif Abdurraqib, Gabrielle Drolet, and Jeremiah David.
Science Cheats: A Reading List on Unscrupulous Scientists
Six stories on the shady side of scholarship.
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
“How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.”

