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Uncanny Testimony

by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee September 25, 2025September 25, 2025

As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 17, 2024April 10, 2026

Recommending noteworthy reads from Tim Prudente and Stokely Baksh, Rachel Aviv, Abby Tickell, Nick Zarzycki, and Andrea Sachs.

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The writer George Saunders stands in the center of a frame, wearing a tuxedo, backed by a hand-painted red circle. Around Saunders are statues of angels, Abraham Lincoln, and the Buddha.

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‘Actually Really Sacred’: A George Saunders Reading List

by Brendan Fitzgerald January 27, 2026January 23, 2026

Nine essays and interviews from literature’s favorite laureate of compassion.

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Rabbit Holes Aplenty and the Week’s Top 5

by Longreads May 17, 2024November 12, 2025

“What could have fizzled out as a weekend infatuation turned into a full-blown obsession, an online epic quest. After the festival, I decided that a dulcimer was something I really needed, but I never just need things; I also crave learning about them deeply from the people who already know.” Who among us has never fallen into […]

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The Eloquent Vindicator in the Electric Room

by Drew Johnson September 9, 2025September 8, 2025

No one remembers the assassination of Congressman James M. Hinds. What do we risk by making it just another part of American history?

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Paging Dr. House: A Medical Mysteries Reading List

by Lisa Bubert March 28, 2023February 27, 2024

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a doctor. Never mind my terrible grades in all things science. Never mind that I decided this in my second year of college, after deciding that the music school that I’d wanted for years wasn’t for me. It was 2006. It was the age of Dr. Gregory […]