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Burgling the Rich, a Cat’s Life Lessons, and Our Top 5
“I learned to adore the way he sidled against me and to hate his momentary affection, just as he learned to detach from me in weariness and depend on me in hunger. Days with him were a quick education in a cat’s existence.” I once spent a year shadowing a musician I loved, whose body […]
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My Final Days on the Maine Coast
“Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, a writer meditates on life, death, and beauty from his small seaside cottage down east.”
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A Freediver Finds Belonging Without Breath
“I’ve retrained my mind to be underwater.”
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The Long Quest for Artificial Blood
“One of the most valuable substances in the world has never been replicated. Are we close?”
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The Eider Keepers
“An age-old tradition in Norway illuminates the bonds between wild ducks, wild places, and the people who care for both.”
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The American Novel Has a Major Problem With Fat People
“Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?”
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Behind the ‘Butter Board’: How the Dairy Industry Took Over Your Feed
“A vast constellation of celebrities, from Kelly Ripa to the McDonald’s mascot Grimace, have helped push dairy sales.”
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The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony
“Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They’re how we can break society’s absurd addiction to single-use plastics.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories by John Woodrow Cox, Justin Sayles, Aryn Baker, Moran Barkai and Paul Tullis, and Russell Cobb and Sarah Brandvold.
