“Jesse Genet’s time was scarce. So she hired Claire, Sylvie, Clark, Dan, and Chloe.”
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The True Story Behind the “El Cap Kindergartener” Ascent
“On May 22, a 7-year-old reached the summit of El Capitan. Why are so many climbers upset about it?”
Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning.
“How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
Consider the Sister
“Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.”
I Want to Live Like Costco People
“Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco.”
All My Dad’s Sons
“At a very young age, I learned a lot about how life can go wrong. It put things into perspective, even if that perspective was a little warped.”
