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In this week's Top 5: • Showing our age (Harper's) • Special delivery (New Yorker) • Unfriendly wagers (GQ) • A shore thing (Dis...

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"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, ...

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"But follow an obsession long enough, and the joke changes. Excess becomes craft, even service." In our new reading list, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Ja...

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"The Marshall Islands had never fielded a national soccer team. With this 11-a-side tournament, these young men would be the first to carry their nation...

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"Then he turned on the rogue fake signal from his spoofer and watched as the dot on the screen appeared to race off down his street, heading north.&quot...

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"I wanted to settle the debate for myself: Are prediction markets more like the NYSE, my old stomping ground, or the MGM Resorts, where my dad had a rew...

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“I want to apologize for living far away, but I think wherever tita Eda is, I might still be a boy in the Philippines, asking her for pamasko and movie ticke...

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\"Realizing your trove exists is terrifying\. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable\.\"

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"To win meant doing something his father had never done. Something that could free Jarrod from that shadow. To lose? Unthinkable." —Tim Struby for ...

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"Titas, although not impossible, are harder to shop for, but I figure out what to buy once I find a thread of memory and start pulling." Read...

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\"Persuading the Roses to let the crew shoot in — and drive a car through — their bespoke glass-and-steel home felt to Coker like a hard sell\.\"

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\"If you find your trash can lying in your bed of tulips, assume your garbageman is not a happy camper\.\" —Simon Paré-Poupart for Harper's [https://harpers\.org/archive/2026/06/the-conscience-of-the-city-simon-pare-poupart-garbage-man-montreal/?src=longreads](https://harpers.org/archive/2026/06/the-conscience-of-the-city-simon-pare-poupart-garbage-man-montreal/?src=longreads) [\#garbage](https://mastodon.world/tags/garbage) [\#trash](https://mastodon.world/tags/trash) [\#waste](https://mastodon.world/tags/waste) [\#longreads](https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads) [\#memoir](https://mastodon.world/tags/memoir)

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This week's Top 5: * Quiet, please (The New Yorker) * An ode to art @nybooks * The value of vultures (The Washington Post) * The Big...

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“Travel has the capacity to crack us wide open, and it’s the same with sorrow—so a confluence of the two can lead to really profound breakthroughs.” La...

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“I see how stories suffer when a writer attempts to fit the play-by-play of an entire experience into a few thousand words.” Lavinia Spalding, editor o...

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"Even the parts that seemed nearly finished didn’t match the rest. Names of characters keep changing. Scene 9, at the end, is sometimes called Scene 1.&...

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"Without getting too nostalgic about it, these readings will make you revisit the forgotten, sometimes wonderful feelings that go with friction."</...

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"I asked them if they did this kind of thing often. First time, they said, and pointed out that this study only recruited first-timers. Your body’s data...

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"The limits of human reality have always been human perception." Read Jenny Odell on strategies for perception beyond human limits, and what we sta...

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