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Enduring Battles, a Musical Childhood, and Our Top 5
“I felt like a rat trapped in a maze with no finish, running into walls and getting electrocuted at every turn. I wanted out of the hellscape I’d created, but I had formed a whole identity around the latticework of visible bones and tendons; my days were structured around the denial of food. To give […]
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30 Years Later: Phyllis Hyman, “I Refuse to Be Lonely”
The singer’s first posthumous album deserves to be remembered as the bravest of her career.
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It’s Boom Times for the ‘Real Fox Mulder’
“How Nick Pope swatted away controversy on his way to becoming the dean of UK ufology.”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he’d like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
“Max Lowe made a big splash in 2021 with ‘Torn,’ a documentary about the death of his famous father, alpinist Alex Lowe, and how it shook and shaped his family.”
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Confessions of a Journalist Turned Weed Smuggler
“A veteran reporter looks back on when he was laid off from his newspaper gig and instead of taking a dead-end desk job turned to running van loads of marijuana across state lines.”
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Can We Talk to Whales?
“Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species.”
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A Top 5 to Tune In To
Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week: War stories, new colors, and the joy in getting hands on in art and gardening.
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By All Measures
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
