“Killing the predators is not nearly as effective as the intimidating presence of well-trained guardians, a role some breeds have played for 5,000 years.”
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You Have a New Memory
“What do we mean when we say the internet is reading our minds?”
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Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .
Everyone waits. No one is spared the waiting room, one way or another. Seven stories on an essential human condition.
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Conversations With Claude
“What a psychotherapist learned during his chats with a large language model.”
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Museum of Color
“From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.”
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What Brain Surgery Taught Me About the Fragile Gift of Consciousness
“After the trauma of a high-risk medical procedure, Eric Markowitz discovered a kind of consciousness that lives not in thought — but in presence.”
Best of 2024
Since 2011, Longreads editors and contributors have compiled the most notable reads of the year in our annual Best of Longreads collections. We’re continuing this tradition for 2024, with a few new changes that we hope you’ll enjoy. Bookmark this page, where we’ll share all of our Best of 2024 lists through December. Thank you, […]
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Contraband Marginalia
“When I checked in the books, I was supposed to look for notes or objects hidden inside.”
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Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
“If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive—and grating—voice.”
