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Ancient Jars
“We need containers, if only to exist with enough solidity to overcome them.”
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Blood-Blue Sky
“How horseshoe crabs and ecological grief connect with the wonders of the human heart.”
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The Great Syrian Beach Trip
“A visit to the seaside once risked arrest and torture. Now people are soaking up the sun.”
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Phantom Pains
“These losses—my limb, my students’ hopes, Thoreau’s mammals, the wings falling from our skies—they are not all that distinct from one another. They can’t be, because all of us, all of the material world, we are one and the same thing.”
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Best of 2025: Our Most Popular Originals of the Year
Our 10 most-read Longreads essays of 2025.
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Neither Here Nor There
“For most of my lifetime, Flushing was the humble immigrant enclave that could.”
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Solastalgia
“Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?”
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Six Handbags
“I’ve been looking for a bag that can fit my life. I should be looking for a life that can fit into my bag. I do not need to read, to go to the gym. I need only what will fit inside the portal.”
