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Edge of Paradise
“In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.”
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How To Chop An Onion
“If fire and water and salt could transform something pungent, bloody, uncontained into one of savor and energy, what else could be transformed?”
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Puzzle Politics
“Often dismissed as frivolous games, crosswords can be a force for change.”
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Mulling Desire, Honoring Murdered Women, and Our Top 5
I had no idea that the hot, tingly pain of blood returning to a frozen extremity is called the screaming barfies, until I read “What Is a Body For?” by Diana Saverin.
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Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
“Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.”
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A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive: ‘The Dark Half’
“Typescript drafts on view in the newly opened archive reframe the horror maestro’s relationship with his alter ego, Richard Bachman.”
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A Longreads Collection of Catapult Stories
A reading list of essays we loved from Catapult magazine.
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Disney Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It
“Mr. Currell, a management consultant, interviewed dozens of Disney enthusiasts, historians and experts, and visited Walt Disney World, which he first experienced in 1977.”
