“He covers his face with his hands. He doesn’t cry. He hasn’t really cried for eight years – since he started with testosterone injections.”
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Life on Screen: A Reality Television Reading List
Reality TV: Guilty pleasure or public service?
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Science Says Life is Better in Intentional Communities
Intentional communities are a prophylactic against the plague of loneliness and a gateway to a meaningful life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
When Death Came to Mauritius
“Black waves bring animals to the town’s shore. Sticky corpses float on the oil.”
Posted inQuotes
Alzheimer’s Before Forty
“Shawn says Jo asked him to promise he would never let him go into a nursing home, that he would help him find some way to end his life on his own terms.”
Posted inStory
Ten Outstanding Stories to Read in 2023
Ten hand-picked short stories to kick off your year in reading.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
There She Goes: How to ‘Feminize’ a Face
How a trans woman found the surgery that could restore her sense of self.
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Alexander Sammon, Amanda Chicago Lewis, Hannah Smothers, Adam Fales, and Matt Dinan.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
William Gibson on How Science Fiction Portrays Reality
“Every fiction about the future is like an ice-cream cone,” Gibson says, “melting as it moves into the future.”
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Well Without Water
Haunted by a running tap in prison, a man grows obsessed with water waste and climate change, pushing him to the edge.
