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Greenland’s Deepening Ecological Grief
“We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Where Even Walmart Won’t Go: How Dollar General Took Over Rural America
In small towns across Kansas, residents and community leaders grapple with the increasingly ubiquitous presence of America’s fastest-growing retailer.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How Amazon Exploits Chinese Workers to Crank Out Its Products
How Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, exploits Chinese workers to manufacture Kindles and smart speakers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Arundhati Roy: “Fiction is a Universe”
Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is the embodiment of concept that the personal is political, even (especially?) in her fiction.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Symbiotics of Harvesting Eider Down
“There is an irresistible simplicity to the relationship between the harvesters and the eiders.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Out There: On Not Finishing
What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Hamburger, William Finnegan, Cecilie Maria Kallestrup and Katrine Jo Anderson, Hannah Jane Parkinson, and Amy Westervelt.
Posted inNonfiction
A Once and Future Beef
Beef is a major culprit of the climate crisis, but if you want to consider beef’s future, then look to its past. The industry’s tactics have not changed as much as you might think.
