“Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.”
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Daylight Savings Time: A (Beach) Reading List for the Lighthearted
I hear that there are people in the world who prefer lighthearted stories. Lovely meet-cutes where no one gets hurt and people even fall in love, where there is serendipity like there used to be before the internet, where good things happen to good people. Cozy mysteries that involve a cat—or possibly, as in one […]
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The Mom Who Runs a Household With a Staff of AI Agents
“Jesse Genet’s time was scarce. So she hired Claire, Sylvie, Clark, Dan, and Chloe.”
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Prison Experiment
“His life behind bars and his desperate campaign to get free.”
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What If It All Came Out?
“We’re each attached to years of texts, searches, and photos, an archive of humiliation that could detonate at any time.”
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Thornton Wilder’s Last Play Vanished Into Thin Air. Or Did It?
“Decades after ‘The Emporium’ failed to open on Broadway in 1954, one man went on a quest to find it.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Wyatt Williams, John Leland, Jonathan Weiner, Suzy Hansen, and Max Ufberg.
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I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline
“No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: the jaws of history; war and piece(s); the last day of camp; stay a while; picture me rollin’.
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Could the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?
“Dozens died in a Texas flood, dividing families over whether it was an act of God or adult failure.”