11th May
5 Great Essays about Death
How to Practice by Ann Patchett - I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death
If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us? by Sarah Wildman - She turned to me and asked, “What if this is the best I ever feel again?” Three hundred and seventy-six days later, she was dead.
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11th May
5 Great Essays about Death
How to Practice by Ann Patchett - I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death
If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us? by Sarah Wildman - She turned to me and asked, “What if this is the best I ever feel again?” Three hundred and seventy-six days later, she was dead.
The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell - The story of a couple who died on a scalding hike with their one-year-old daughter
I Nearly Died Drowning. Here’s What it’s Like to Survive. by Maggie Slepian - On coming to terms with a near-death experience
A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing? by Jia Tolentino - What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.
Plus click through for the full list of 30 Great Articles about Death
15th Apr
5 Great Articles about Climate Change
The Science of Climate Change Explained by Julia Rosen - Definitive answers to the big Questions
How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? by Sandra Upson - A gigantic, weather-defining current system could be headed to collapse
Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’? by Alex Cuadros - Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna — with profound effects on the climate worldwide
What to Do with Climate Emotions by Jia Tolentino - If the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?
After Climate Despair by Matt Frost - The hope for a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change. What comes next?
Plus check out the full list of 50 Great Articles about Climate Change
2nd Apr
5 Great Essays about AI
The Future Is Too Easy by David Roth - There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it
Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth by Jon Gertner - Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?
AI Means the End of Internet Search as We’ve Known It by Mat Honan - Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge
AI Has a Hotness Problem by Caroline Mimbs Nyce - In the world of generated imagery, you’re either drop-dead gorgeous or a wrinkled, bug-eyed freak
AI and the American Smile by Jenka Gurfinkel - How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression
And check out our full list of great essays about AI
16th Feb
5 Great Essays about Love
What Romance Really Means by Heather Havrilesky - Long-married romance is not the romance of watching someone’s every move like a stalker, and wanting to lick his face but trying to restrain yourself
Against Chill by Alana Massey - In recent years, “chill” has become one of the most desirable qualities in a romantic prospect. But it is a garbage virtue that will destroy the species
This Was How Things Ended by Michael Hobbes - An essay about breakups
How to Be Single by Phoebe Robinson - How to be alone and only mildly hate and lukewarm love it
Tinder Hearted by Allison P. Davis - How did a dating app become my longest running relationship?
Plus 50 more classic articles and essays about love!
13th May
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10th Apr
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28th Feb
5 Great Essays about Art
The Power of Exposure by Derek Thompson - Fame and familiarity — in art, music, politics
The Art of Rules by Sherri Irvin - Conceptual art often confounds. The key is to understand the rules of the artwork and the aesthetic experiences they yield
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art by Ted Chiang - To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
Everyone’s a Sellout Now by Rebecca Jennings - So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?
Go Ahead and Ban My Book by Margaret Atwood - To those who seek to stop young people from reading The Handmaid’s Tale: Good luck with that. It’ll only make them want to read it more.
Plus 40 more great essays about art and culture!
4th Feb
5 Great Articles about Gametes
The Egg by Bloomberg Staff - A story of extraction, exploitation and opportunity
Unscrambling the Egg by Natalie Angier - Put a few adults in a room with a sweet-tempered infant, and you may as well leave a tub of butter sitting out in the midday sun…
The Doctor Is a Woman by Sloane Crosley - On the prospect of parenthood
You Wouldn’t Believe How Difficult it is to Buy Sperm by Danielle Elliot - It’s easier than ever for single women to have children on their own … or so I thought. Then began my $17,000 journey
Sperm Count Zero by Daniel Noah Halpern - Within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce