“As vultures vanished, dogs multiplied, and rabies spread. Humans are living with the consequences.”
India
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Death of an Indian Tech Worker
“A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.”
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The Scammer Next Door
“In India, an era of glaring inequality is also a golden age of fraud.”
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Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a “Culture of Fear”
“Those of us who’ve been very unsafe as children, we seek out the unsafe. We seek out the lack of security, and if you have security, you blow it up.”
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Here Be Serpents
“A lifelong and morbid fear of snakes held me captive—until something much scarier raised its ugly head.”
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Eyes on the Prize: A Treasure Hunting Reading List
Every quest holds at its heart a puzzle to solve—and that puzzle can become an obsession.
Posted inNonfiction
Love Wins
“Two women promised they would see the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time once they were together. They had no idea how long that would take.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Hannah Dreier, Jason Fagone and Julie Johnson, Shruti Swamy, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Kristen Arnett.
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Meeting Mumbai Again After a Life-Changing Loss
“Moment by moment, this city will teach me to stay awake to the present, to pay attention, to follow the thread of human connection, to take pleasure where it’s found.”
