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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring standout reads from Ian Urbina, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sallie Tisdale, Brad Rassler, and Adam Reiner.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Recreating the Smells of History
“Using chemistry, archival records and AI, scientists are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields.”
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The Persimmon Tree at Stand Five
“My Japanese-American grandma spent her final years on a hunting preserve in Alabama. She taught me how to be comfortable as an anomaly in the South.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism
How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps
A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Game Is Played With Great Feeling
“How Pokémon can save the world, one Pikachu at a time.”
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the ‘New York Times’ About Zohran Mamdani
“The former chair of the Africana Studies department at Bowdoin College would prefer not to.”
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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
“The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.”
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On Memory and Survival
Nickole Brown reflects on how her inability to form memories as a result of childhood trauma had adversely affected her ability to survive. Survival has to do with remembering what you most do not want to face. It has to do with not turning away, in believing your own testimony, in writing it down. Then, […]
