“When I started as a healthcare assistant on a hospital ward for older patients, it was clear how bad things had got.”
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Desert Hours
“There are moments when I’m happier now than I remember being very often in the past, though these moments gleam out of a new solitude.”
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Trying to Stay Awake
“Inexpert though I am in all other fields, I am a connoisseur of sleep.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Notable reads by Atef Abu Saif, Sonia Smith, James McNaughton, Dorothy Wickenden, and Kevin Koenig.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories by Jeannette Cooperman, Jackson Arn, Andrew Hui, Myriam Gurba, and Simon Hattenstone.
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Taking Stock
Rob Horning explores the term “creator” in this essay on labor, exploitation, and content production and consumption on the internet. “Creator,” like “creativity,” is essentially a null term that signifies nothing about one’s activity but instead marks one’s limitless availability — a willingness to make anything at all in one’s life into content for sale.
Posted inReading List
Nature Isn’t Called ‘the Wild’ for Nothing: A Queer Ecology Reading List
Six stories to change the way you think about nature.
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Last Resorts
“Disabled people and advocates fear that medically assisted suicide will become a weapon for the state to do away with what capitalism considers unproductive bodies.”
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The Cabin on the Mountain
“Sometimes, the mechanism of the answer is something ludicrously complex, a thing that must be pieced out bit by bit. Other times, the solution requires retooling your perspective.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by J.K. Nickell, Conor Niland, Wendell Brock and Paul Kwilecki, Ally Jarmanning, and Drew Magary.
