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The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico
“A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale.”
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Song of the Scientist
“Mukherjee was fascinated with cells early on. But then he was interested in so many things.”
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Game, Set, Fix
“As gambling on tennis exploded into a $50 billion industry, he had infiltrated the sport, paying pros more to lose … than they could make by winning tournaments.”
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David Lynch Was Here
A dispatch from the real Twin Peaks, where fans of the director flocked after his death.
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The Final Dead Shows: Part One
“Everyone is dancing a little bit, bobbing, but really they are having an extended, possibly endless, interior experience.”
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The Work of the Witness
“Three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?”
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Letter from Manhattan 2
On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.
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The Nurse Who Names the Dead
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories from Mariana Serapicos, Camille Bromley, Devon Fredericksen, Georgia Brown, and Sarah Golibart Gorman.
