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The Sex Lives Of Common Vegetables
“Nature is full of species for which sex and gender are more fluid than the heterosexual gender binary that is commonly accepted in Western societies.”
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The Man Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes
“After his daughter’s diagnosis, Budimir Šobat gave up drinking and devoted himself to her care. Years later, he found a new obsession: holding his breath longer than anyone in history.”
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Altadena: Four Stories
For three weeks in January, the Eaton Fire raced through the small community of Altadena, California, destroying more than 9,000 buildings and killing seventeen people. Afterward, we invited four writers, all longtime local residents, to share memories, and photographs, of what burned, and what didn’t.
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Sitting in the Waiting Room
“We wait constantly, for a variety of outcomes and eventualities, some of which we can’t see coming.”
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What Does It Take to Actually Cook Like a Tradwife?
“Was all of that work actually worth it?”
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The Lake Home
“What is excluded is as important as what is included, and every painting is haunted by this process.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: subsea storytelling, a preservation paradox, achieving serpentine symbiosis, an investigation into infinity, and a marijuana mystery.
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The Land Beyond the Drug War
“It’s more than fifty years on from our declaration of a war on narcotics, and people are getting higher on more destructive shit than ever.”
