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I Tried to Forget My Whole Life. I’m Glad I Failed.
The hindsight of an adulthood autism diagnosis.
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The Expanding Table: Honoring Palestinian Culinary Tradition in Arkansas
For one baker and educator in Northwest Arkansas, food is a connection to her family’s roots in Gaza—and an essential way to share the stories of their culture.
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Best of 2023: All of Our Number One Story Picks
Every piece we selected as our top story of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nicole Carr, Cullen Murphy, Carrington J. Tatum, Matthew Bremner, and Nitasha Tiku.
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The Depths to Which We Go
Making sense of absence in the ever-dissolving karst of Missouri.
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‘That Girl is Going to Get Herself Killed’
Krista Diamond | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,342 words) In 2012, I was working at a hotel in Glacier National Park when a man I’d just met invited me for a day of tubing and drinking beer on the river. Little did I know, I would nearly drown in the rapids. But […]
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When We Are Afraid
On teaching in a red state, the silences in our history lessons, and all I never learned about my hometown.
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I Think I’m Going to Be Sick
The ride technology at amusement parks has become more sophisticated. For ride-goers prone to motion sickness, the outcome can be messy.
