Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.
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Posted inFeature
Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Greatest Scam Ever Written
“They were believers—in astrology, in psychics, in fortune telling—who longed for transformation, salvation, fortune.”
Posted inNonfiction
Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language
Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Disposable Heroes
“Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of ‘coming forward.’”
Posted inFeature
Getting Unstuck with Ramona Ausubel
On finding joy in the writing process, embracing friction, and developing your voice.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: the jaws of history; war and piece(s); the last day of camp; stay a while; picture me rollin’.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas
“Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”
Posted inNewsletter
What Waiting Is, Ibram X. Kendi, and Our Top 5
“What is it, precisely, that you work for? What real goodness do you seek at the end of your own long line? “
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia
“The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”
