In 1996, David Foster Wallace profiled tennis player Michael Joyce in one of the most celebrated pieces of sports writing ever published. Who has he become since?
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The Many Meanings of Fruitcake
In Food52, Mayukh Sen explores the ways fruitcake became a homophobic slur, queerness, and his own personal attachment to the namesake food.
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Breaking Cycling’s Boy’s Club
Bike mechanics have historically been a mostly male group, but a group of Canadian women is changing that and increasing access for female cyclists.
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In Defense of Facts: What Is the Essay?
When does fact become fiction? William Deresiewicz on essays, embellishment, and the slippery slope of “truthiness.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Here are the stories we loved this week. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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What Lies Beyond: A Reading List About Life and Death
The stories I’ve included this week are about eternal life and the fear we feel while contemplating the lack thereof.
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What Lies Beyond: A Reading List About Life and Death
The stories I’ve included this week are about eternal life and the fear we feel while contemplating the lack thereof.
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Lost in Japan
Sarah Miller travels to Japan to learn more about sochu, and ends up learning more about her own limitations as a traveler.
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Strange Women: Vancouver’s Female Punk Visionaries
Connie Kuhns’s spotlight on revolutionary female musicians who creates Vancouver’s underground music scene was a National Magazine Award finalist.
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The Changing Face of Reindeer Herding
The Economist goes into the frigid north to examine how climate change and economics have endangered the centuries-old relationship between Finn and reindeer.