“The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am.”
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Our Longing for Inconvenience
“The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times.”
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‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack
“After years of racing, I wanted to take my sled dogs back into the wilderness.”
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Glowworms
“In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me.”
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We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
“What illness taught me about true friendship.”
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The Romance History Forgot
Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to the South Pole captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived.
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Love, Lust, Loneliness: A Valentine’s Day Reading List
Essays, reading lists, and editors’ picks on relationships, breakups, and many different kinds of love.
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In Every Nelson He Visits, Jeff Truesdell Finds the Man He Loved
“How do you live with the loss of a loved one? For Truesdell, it means visiting every Nelson in North America.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Paul Kix, Matthieu Aikins, Matt Alt, Elisa Gabbert, and Sophie Elmhirst.
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The Love Machine
“Love Is Blind creator Chris Coelen drops a new group of singles into his experiment—and wrestles with the lawsuits against the show.”