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In Search Of The Continent’s Largest Shorebird
“Transcendent experiences, after all, are rare.”
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A Top 5 to Tune In To
Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week: War stories, new colors, and the joy in getting hands on in art and gardening.
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Ad Man
“You might think you’re immune to political advertising. In Montana, I learned the hard way: None of us are.”
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What’s the Future of Solitary Confinement?
“Frank DePalma. . . . found comfort in the absence of light.”
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Dimes, Dunks, and Devotion: A Basketball Reading List
Seven essays that go beyond the box score.
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Hopeless Romantic, Seeking Treatment
“Should limerence—a state of obsessive infatuation—be considered a clinical issue?”
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A Colorful Addition and the Week’s Top 5
“Humans are besotted with color and we always have been. We love it so much we will breathe it, eat it, drink it, and look at it until our eyes roll back in our heads. We will paint with it, paint the world with it, paint ourselves with it. We will go to the ends […]
