Eight legs, many lessons: One writer explores the liminal spaces between self-censorship and creativity.
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The Powerful Potential Of Tiny Conservation Plots
“Making space for environmental conservation in our densest concrete jungles.”
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The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan
“This was what made me walk 100 miles. Over and over again, Gorton found ways to make itself interesting.”
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The Worst Shot Ever Taken
“The author and his closest basketball confidantes undertake a formal analysis of Steph Curry’s shot at the Paris Olympics as art object.”
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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
“In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.”
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An Act of Cosmic Sabotage
“How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions.”
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Roadside Attraction
“The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am.”
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More Nothing Now
“We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity.”
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Help Us Publish Stories That Outlast the Noise
We’re a home for stories that linger. In 2017, I reached out to Candace Rardon, a writer and artist whose watercolor sketches I’d admired for years. Up until that point, I’d only edited traditional essays for Longreads, but I wanted to experiment with illustrated personal narratives. We brainstormed a visual direction, and the final piece […]
