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What’s Your Type? A Reading List on Typefaces with Wild Tales to Tell
Seven stories exploring our love affair with type.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Lost soul, copy that, missing beats, muzzled watchdogs, and a ramblin’ man.
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
“Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.”
Posted inFeature
A Year in Reading: The Wounds That Bind
On the hard-hitting, unforgettable stories of 2024.
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza
“In my homeland, where we used to cook and celebrate together, my relatives are eating animal feed to keep from starving.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Birth of My Daughter, the Death of My Marriage
“Being an adult meant watching many possible versions of yourself whittle into just one.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Delicate Art of Turning Your Parents Into Content
“Gen Z creators are learning the lessons of Scorsese and Akerman: putting mom and dad in your work brings pathos, complexity, and a certain frisson.”
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Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean
“The author of ‘Erasure’ is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be language itself.”
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How Lawrence Abu Hamdan Hears the World
“The artist and audio investigator, who calls himself a ‘private ear,’ investigates crimes that are heard but not seen.”
