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The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell
Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
Impersonation Nation: A Very Scammy Reading List
Five stories that demonstrate we’re living in the golden age of the personal hoax.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
“Good teachers teach students how to find the pattern, and how to find the deviance: how to see that different things are actually the same thing, or, sometimes, that what look like the same things are in fact different. I want my students to know what I hope other people are also teaching my children: […]
Food, Shared Humanity, and the Week’s Top 5
“Once weekly fare, I now have cholent only a few times a year; I, too, am no longer observant. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Which is to say that, while I stand by the choices I’ve made and the life I am choosing to live—different from how I was raised, but no less […]
Odd, Genius, or Something In Between: A Reading List on Writers
“Give me the weird tics, the turns of phrase, the strange beginnings. Give me the writer in their natural habitat.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Ryu Spaeth, Kit Chellel, Dave Eggers, Holly Haworth, and John Semley.
“Can I Get You a Nice Chianti?”
Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins talk about “The Silence of the Lambs” for the movie’s 30th anniversary.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Desiree Stennett and Caroline Glenn, Imani Perry, Bethany Marcel, Joshua Hunt, and David Alm.
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? “


