Featuring stories from Paul Kix, Matthieu Aikins, Matt Alt, Elisa Gabbert, and Sophie Elmhirst.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: the appeal of the surreal, decoding AI dreck, goop relations, learning to think, and pigeon racing pitfalls
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I Trekked an Entire European Country in Three Days
“I savored the slow struggle of orientation…until the day I’d wake up and realize I no longer felt lost.”
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Rebel Rebel
Sometimes the support we need is a soundtrack. It felt important to me, as a parent, to play my daughter songs that evoked the bigness of the world and revealed a number of ways to be in it.
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Zombie Twitter Has Arrived
Instagram’s Threads proves that social media is fated to repeat a cycle of life and death.
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When the Arctic Melts
“What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.”
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The Silence Is the Loudest Part of ‘Renaissance: A Film’
“More than anything, ‘Renaissance’ is a testament that Beyoncé is a brand that stands for absolutely nothing beyond its own greatness.”
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Soundscapes of the Silenced
“In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.”
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Map Room: A Radical Reading List on Cartographic Power, Perspective, and Possibility
Seven stories celebrating our fascination with maps.
