Our readership has spoken! This list compiles the most-viewed stories we recommended in 2024.
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During a Pandemic, Walk
“I prefer to travel on foot, close to dirt, vaulted by sky, my rhythm the rhythm of human evolution.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Hannah S. Palmer, Jeremy Thomas Gilmer, Spencer Campbell, Mia Sato, and Dina Gachman.
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The Universe, T-Swift, and This Week’s Top 5
“Growing up it was drilled in me that no word should touch the ground. Words are to be revered no matter what those words might mean. Once my Nana insisted my entire room be reorganized because my bookshelf was stationed such that when I went to bed the backs of my feet faced the books […]
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What Neko Case taught me about curation and the week’s Top 5
“When the media covered women in the grunge and alternative scene, it treated them like a genre unto itself. This genre, though, received almost no in-depth profiles or features.” Books are one of the great joys in my life. The other is music. I’ve been following singer songwriter Neko Case since 1997, after picking up […]
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Land Ownership Makes No Sense
“The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong.”
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Homesick
“Flaming ruby apples hang off a tree and roll over the grass and moss, deadly and beautiful. ‘Don’t step on the moss,’ says Luda. ‘Radioactive.’”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re recommending stories by Zarlasht Halaimzai, Gloria Liu, E. Jean Carroll, Amy Margolis, and Chris Colin.
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Protecting the Prairie
“On the native prairies of North America, green is the problem.”
