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Elizabeth Weil

Posted inEditor's Pick

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop

by Peter Rubin May 10, 2023May 10, 2023

“What it’s like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed.”

Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 7, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Elizabeth Weil, Jeannette Cooperman, Ryan Katz, and Madeleine Watts.

Posted inEditor's Pick

This Isn’t the California I Married

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 3, 2022March 29, 2023

“The honeymoon’s over for its residents now that wildfires are almost constant. Has living in this natural wonderland lost its magic?”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 29, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Amirah Mercer, Jason Motlagh, Esmé E. Deprez, and Michael Paulson.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 23, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Neena Satija, Dan McDougall, Leslie Jamison, and Amos Barshad.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads December 14, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, Sean Patrick Cooper, and Priya Krishna.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Being a Teenage Girl is Hard

by Danielle Tcholakian December 4, 2017October 19, 2022

Nobody in their families can understand them, OK?

uncut emeralds
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Men Vying for the Emerald That’s Worth Millions… or Nothing

by michelleweber March 6, 2017October 19, 2022

For her story in Wired, Elizabeth Weil fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy, arson, faked kidnapping, bankruptcy, and lawsuits that swirls around the 752-pound Bahia Emerald.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 3, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories by Elizabeth Weil, Michael Hobbes, J. Oliver Conroy, Bob Shacochis, and Ben Schreckinger.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Ruins Lives

by michelleweber March 2, 2017October 19, 2022

Meet the schemers, investors, and dreamers who were bewitched by a big green rock that might not actually be worth anything.

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