Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.
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A Dangerous Solo Hike, the Vanishing of Aging Parents, and Our Top 5
“I came to a shack with a small, white-haired man inside. I assumed he had been guarding Devil’s Bridge for centuries. I answered his riddles three and he gestured for me to sign in. At the end of his hand was a damp pile of papers and a pen on a gray string. Like most […]
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Seeing is Believing: A Reading List on Making Meaning from Data
Eight stories on the power and beauty of visual communication.
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The Memory Maker
OpenAI’s Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
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Knotty Business: A Delightfully Tangled Reading List on Knots
Six stories on our fascination with knots.
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N.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’
Hells to the yes, says I.
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The Search for Answers, and the Week’s Top 5
We become better in many ways, but it’s the best writers who give us the information and context required to do so, and let us do the work to get there.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles
Here’s a selection of profiles that resonated with us this year.
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This Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal
The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.
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Namwali Serpell on Doing the Responsible Thing — Writing an Irresponsible Novel
“I joke that this is the great Zambian novel you didn’t know you were waiting for.”
