“Babylon was everything forbidden, and looming all around us—and my father tried to protect us from it at all costs.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week features pieces from Sabrina Imbler, Natan Last, Lulu Miller and John Megahan, Casey Cep, and David Grimm.
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A Water Obsession and Our Weekly Top 5
“The majority of home water use takes place in the bathroom, so that’s where I started. I scaled back my showers to once a week and only flushed the toilet when the need was overwhelming. I wandered my dark little apartment doing calculations on a loop. How many gallons of water does the Livingston faucet […]
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
“Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature?”
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On Stamina, the Need to Write, and the Urgency of Youth
Award-winning poet Carl Phillips on writing, poetry, and perspective.
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The Game Is Played With Great Feeling
“How Pokémon can save the world, one Pikachu at a time.”
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The Dance of Śiva
“Śiva moves in dance, in sculpture, in painting, in poetry, in ritual, in physics … And still he is not done. What are we to do?”
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Stet: On Cutting—but Keeping—Everything
“I prefer to keep my darlings on ice.”
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I’m Looking to Jump Ship Sooner Than I Should: A Conversation with Percival Everett
“We abandon stories. They don’t end.”
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Harmony
“You can practice a song a thousand times and still its first note sends you into the unknown.”
