This week’s edition highlights stories by Elissa Nadworny and Claire Harbage, Thomas Lake, Jeff Sharlet, Jasmine Attia, and Brett Martin.
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Gen Cheese
“A new era of cheese rebels is cracking the code on wonderfully weird, climate-friendly, and Instagrammable dairy.”
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The Scientific Methods of J. Kenji López-Alt
“At 42, López-Alt now has the actual dad status to justify the doofy jokes he inserts into his recipes. When Alicia was born, he left food writing to be a full-time parent. Last year he left pretty much every social media platform except Instagram, where he currently clocks more than 450,000 followers. His career has […]
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Is There Such a Thing as Black Thought?
“Tariq Trotter isa 50-year-old artist in a genre where youth is an asset and middle-aged rappers are rare. His voice is gravelly, though wildly flexible when rhyming. He is noticed in every room he walks into. A brother who pays attention to the way the fedora on his head cuts against his face and has […]
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Polaroid Death Machine
“I reached for the same tools that my grandmother used, the old Polaroid cameras I’d taken from what was once her home, which I cleaned and cared for, then carried out into our new, time-broken world, panicked and unsure of what I’d see.”
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Mount Fear Diary
“Speaking to the dead can, for a short while, seem to place us outside the laws of nature—outside the rules governing time and space.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash, Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard, Casey Tolan, Lou Robinson, and Byron Manley; Lindsey Liles; David Gauvey Herbert; Laura Trethewey; and Abe Beame.
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How Three Bros in Their Thirties Turned Their Animal Obsession into a Binge-Worthy Podcast
“Nearly half a million listeners download ‘Tooth and Claw’ each month. Can the show also help save the animals it profiles?”
Posted inNonfiction
The Passing of a Monarch: A Reading List on Queen Elizabeth II
A look at the remarkable life and complicated legacy of Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Ramen Lord
“It is cooking that veers into the domain of laboratory science.”
