Recommending stories from Kate Mossman, Luke Winkie, Lou Stoppard, Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne, and Rosa Lyster.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from David Roth, Dhruv Mehrotra and Andy Greenberg, Thomas Dai, Cameron Maynard, and Katherine Rundell.
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Fear as a Game
“What can the philosophy of games tell us about our odd impulse to scare ourselves?”
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Mystery of the Disappearing Teepee
“One day it was there. The next it wasn’t. Then it was back. Who wanted it gone?”
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The Balkans’ Alternative Postal System: An Ad-Hoc Courier’s Tale
“Across this fractured region, informal networks rule. So if you need to send something, ask someone who’s already going that way.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
We’re recommending stories by Danny Chau, Annalisa Quinn, Bijan Stephen, Jordan Michelman, and Anna Wiener.
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Our Haunted Apartment in Montreal
“Twenty years on, the author reflects on being trapped in a vortex of dark energy.”
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The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin
“There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing.”
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Stet: On Cutting—but Keeping—Everything
“I prefer to keep my darlings on ice.”
