“Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted.”
The Walrus
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Michelle Shephard, Adrienne Mason, Dylan Levi King, Sara Mitchell, and Saskia Solomon.
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How a Would-Be Bomber Rebuilt His Life
“Zakaria Amara was jailed for his part in the Toronto 18 terror plot. Then came the hard work of redemption.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Highlighting stories from Evan Malmgren, Thea Lim, Beth Raymer, Kasey Butcher Santana, and Nico Madrigal-Yankowski.
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Ottawa’s Response to the Trucker Protest Was Doomed from the Start
“Ottawa residents had had it.”
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How Connie Walker Got Us Listening
“Walker was cut off mid-pitch by a producer who asked if she was talking about another ‘poor Indian’ story.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring standout stories by Michael Hall, Sarah Aziza, Ferris Jabr, Adrian Nathan West, and Kyle Chayka.
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Joni Mitchell’s Best Album Is Turning Fifty. It’s Not Blue
“She was done playing the starry-eyed hippie. She was tired of singing dirges.”
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Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn’t Make It Easy
“Living with my mother, we get free child care and help with expenses. But all those perks come at a cost.”
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Librarians on the Front Lines: A Reading List for Library Lovers and Realists
Increasingly, being a librarian is less and less about books and more and more about community survival.