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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Inside Kyiv on the Night of Ukraine’s Stunning World Cup Qualifier Victory
“I came to Kyiv to watch a city watch a game.” Wright Thompson goes to the capital of Ukraine to watch the country’s football team play Scotland in a World Cup qualifier. It’s an emotional, poignant read about life during war, the power of football, and the incredible strength and spirit of the Ukrainian people. […]
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The Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the Mexico City Subway
“The city’s metro hosts—and authorities unofficially sanction—a queer institution unlike any other.”
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The Creator Of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong
“Garfield was at war with his own game and the industry that was erupting around it almost as soon as ‘Magic’ released.”
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The Mostly Untold Story of How the Sports Bra Conquered the World and Tore Its Inventors Apart
David Davis tells the rather curious history of the sports bra — first devised by sewing two jockstraps together, its conception led to years of conflict between the three company founders. Human breasts are made up of fat as well as glandular and connective tissue, blood vessels, and lymph nodes. Breasts have no muscle; the […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Robert Sanchez, Amos Barshad, Mark Dent, Zoya Teirstein, and Caity Weaver.
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The Dark Heart of Modern Chess
“Chess has never been more popular, but its ugly side has also never been more exposed.”
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The Secret MVP of Sports? The Port-a-Potty
“Tailgating had become a new American tradition, with attendance at college football games alone surging from 18.9 million in 1950 to almost 30 million in 1970, and a need for portable bathrooms was inevitable.”
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Fear as a Game
“What can the philosophy of games tell us about our odd impulse to scare ourselves?”
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His Best Friend Was a 250-Pound Warthog. One Day, It Decided to Kill Him.
Austin Riley spent decades raising exotic animals in the Texas Hill Country. In a split second, the animal he thought he knew best changed his life forever.
