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"If he spots someone chewing gum in a car next to him during his commute, he stares straight ahead." Sloane Crosley for The New Yorker: <a hr...

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"Yet while many members of the climbing community condemned the Evermores, the world of non-climbers could not stop celebrating." —Sam MacIlwaine f...

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"Britain has only around 60,000 thatched homes left — 0.2 percent of its housing stock. But among England’s roughly 800 thatchers, the reed-versus-straw...

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"As Louisiana disappears, a vast amount of water should become public property, open to fishermen—but, officially, it’s not." —Carlyle Calhoun for ...

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"Not all human experiences are subject to progress." —Zadie Smith for The New York Review of Books <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/0...

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"The McCanns vanished, as did Sally and Steve. It wasn’t that hard; they were living in the golden age of fugitives." An excerpt from the new...

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"But expertise only gets you so far in ballooning. Everyone, from the freshest- faced rookie to the most experienced veteran, is at the mercy of th...

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"I don’t know at what point performing for friends and rooting for your team falls over the edge into something darker." —Lyz Lenz for Rolling Ston...

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"'Well, we’re dated!' the wife complains to her husband. 'That abstractionist next door built his house in space-time.'" Gabr...

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"More familiarity just brings more questions—the birds become more mysterious, not less." Read a new essay from Jenny Odell about soft eyes, deep l...

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"Can you inherit someone else’s exile? How can I be from a country I’ve never known?" Yasmin Roshanian for Off Assignment: <a href="https://o...

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"Psychologists have a term for a certain kind of relentless remembering: hyperthymesia." —Jonathan Weiner on autobiographical memory for The Americ...

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"As I put my compulsion into the world, and people began responding by texting me their own rabbit photos and tagging me in their posts, had I created m...

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"I like this notion that the outside seeps in, I like the vulnerability that it allows, indeed forces us to acknowledge: we are made by what we swim ins...

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"I know this experiment would be incredibly difficult if other people relied on a more consistent level of communication with me. But in reality, most o...

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"Twenty-two tons of artisanal British cheese, some of the most expensive cheese made in the UK. A huge order for Neal’s Yard. It seemed too good to be t...

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"After visiting São Paulo’s wild capybaras, I wondered if the rodents had made a mistake by moving to the big city." Erick Trickey for Slate:...

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In "The Wayfinders," Jordan P. Hickey writes about the last nation on Earth without a soccer team. <a href="https://longreads.com/2026/04/21/...

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"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before c...

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