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Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
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I Remember the Bookstore
Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s wander an aisle, running our fingertips across a wall of spines. One spine, thick and black, juts out: the recent NYRB Classics reissue of William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions. It’s a block of a book, […]
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The Proving Grounds: Charley Crockett and the Story of Deep Ellum
Generations of musicians got their start busking the streets of the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. After a decade of ‘hobo-ing’ around cities like New Orleans, Paris, and New York, Charley Crockett discovered it was his turn.
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The Hare Krishnas of Coal Country
The world is full of make-believe. Some of it is sweet, some of it is sick. It persists because we have found no other antidote for pain.
Posted inNonfiction
You Robbie, You Baka
On having a twin with cerebral palsy and navigating school bullies.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Lost Album, Human Highway
How CSNY fumbled a chance to record their best album.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Cowards and Accomplices
In light of her own family’s experience during the Holocaust, Judith Hertog considers her ethical responsibilities in today’s world.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Cowards and Accomplices
In light of her own family’s experience during the Holocaust, Judith Hertog considers her ethical responsibilities in today’s world.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Science Fiction, Story
Working Through the Apocalypse: An Interview with Ling Ma
In Ling Ma’s “Severance” — a novel she began to write after getting laid off, while living partly on severance pay — the characters keep going to work, even though they know it’s the end of the world.
