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"There are empty bottles everywhere—crammed onto shelves, catching the light on a windowsill. A bar cart overflows with bottles that Buffington has yet ...

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"There are file traces everywhere, like so many ghosts in a vast bardo, which can sometimes be brought back to life." —Julian Lucas for The New Yor...

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"Like the subway and public library, benches are places that people who have nowhere to go, go." Gabrielle Bruney for Places Journal: <a href...

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In the latest edition of our Top 5: —Death traps (The Believer) —Derring-do detectives (The New York Review of Books) —Drivel inspection (The...

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"Weatherbeaten sailors laugh about Tom’s incompetence, trading shipwreck stories of their own over their glasses of ouzo."—Andrew Printer for Narra...

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"But to look at KJ’s case and conclude we’re ready to program pre-implantation embryos is like declaring you’re fluent in a new language because you’ve ...

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On the ocean, wayfinding meant reading swells and stars. On a field in Springdale, Arkansas, it meant reading space, movement, and one another. Read Jo...

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What's on Vauhini Vara's desk? Cards for a climbing gym, a karate federation, and "the business card of a man I once met at a reading whose life...

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"Behind the scenes, the atmosphere is so rooted in paranoia that former Knicks players warn one another about rooms being bugged, and staffers worry abo...

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"It becomes a race. Get it done already. In my notes for one course I did, taught by an Australian novelist, I have: 'HOW LONG DOES THE READER HAVE ...

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"So much of the experimentation with GLP-1s is happening outside traditional research models, careful clinical trials and even the health system."<...

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The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovered what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas. Read Jordan P. Hickey’s new Longreads story, “...

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"It is inconvenient to be a person, floating through the grand and impossible world, significant in your own resplendent garden of hours but insignifica...

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"Mavis’s singing suggests a more horizontal mode of musical creation, even when she’s at the front of the stage herself." —Sophie Abramowitz for Th...

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"Controlling territory is everything, as if the hunters and the sabs really were at war."—Tamlin Magee for Dispatch Media. <a href="https://d...

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"I got the sense that what motivated my crewmates was, above all, a conviction that Mars would transform us, no matter what kind of society would eventu...

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"Because who else is telling that story? Of how our grandmothers saved us and made us? Of how much we owe older women? . . . Because look around. The st...

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"In the 20 years I’ve lived in Paris, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked by other Americans whether I still feel American." Li...

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"More than once she scrawled a picture of the female reproductive system on a wall with a Sharpie to help explain things to her peers." Rebec...

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"The only job available in Darwin is at the post office, and after the last postmaster died a few years ago, that position’s no longer even held by a to...

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