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"Between them, the bus has become something more than shelter, a way of living deliberately within borrowed time." Joshua Jackson for RE:PUBL...

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"Being alone up on the trails late at night in the dark was not actually that scary, the artist says; the solitude was the point. The vibe was sort of t...

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This week's Top 5: * Happy birthday, Sir David (The Ringer) * The search for her son (The Boston Globe Magazine) * A keyboard fantasy @ny...

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"My experience was only that dishonesty of some degree was needed to stay out of foster homes, feed myself, and obtain a few days’ grace on a bill.&quot...

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"Crooked cops, judges, and county employees accepted poached meat as gifts and arranged cover-ups. People in the valley who opposed poaching mostly stay...

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"Finding his music again feels right because it’s a connection we sorely needed and nearly missed." —Bijan Stephen on Beverly Glenn-Copeland for Th...

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"He describes it all with an almost breezy enthusiasm, as if discussing a new training block rather than a pharmacological overhaul." —Clara Molot ...

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"In the back of the van, I learned other things, too, like who the Geto Boys were, what a 187 was, and that you could make a lot more money selling crac...

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"I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believ...

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"There seems to be a sort of tether between that moment—be it with my brother in the tall grass by the lake, or speaking my final words to him through t...

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"Leave the bees mostly alone, and let them learn to solve the challenges of their volatile world. And they have." —Hannah Nordhaus for National Geo...

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This week's Top 5: - Bottles ashore, The New Yorker - Benches awaiting, Places Journal - Boundlessness disputed, Quanta Magazine -...

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"Matt John was right: This team was special. The Marshall Islands had never fielded a national soccer team." Read "The Wayfinders&quot...

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"In my strange absence of flavor, their glossy enthusiasm was captivating. I suspect that I was outsourcing my own eating." Thrilled to copublish A...

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"We have been raised on films that end with cathartic tears and hugs, and promises never to hurt each other again. In real life, that’s not where most o...

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"The wargames market was basically inaccessible to people that were part of the anti-war movement, unless it was couched in a way that wasn’t revisiting...

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"I’m a huge believer in inventing your own rituals before writing. They can be as weird as you want them to be so that when you go into a writing situat...

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"These books have not passed through a human; they remain ignorant of culture and society." —Sally O'Reilly for Cabinet Magazine <a href="https...

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