“John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories by Alice Hines, Maggie Harrison Dupré, Katie Engelhart, Pooja Bhatia, and Tom Lamont.
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Pain and Suffering
“There were several obstacles to treating Marshall’s pain, but the greatest was the stigma of opioids.”
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Elevate Me Later
“Highbrow horror cinema has won respectability—but sold its soul.”
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Bringing up the Bodies
“What they would be doing at top speed was exhuming human remains.”
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A Baker’s Secrets
“But how did he get that distinctive crumbly chewy moistness and a flavor that, for all I knew, depended on a secret ingredient?”
