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We asked Ibram X. Kendi: Sound or silence? "I love the loudness of silence, as an introvert." The CHAIN OF IDEAS author answers this we...

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"As an antidote to this 'disease' of curiosity, then, Plutarch recommends a suite of ascetic practices, including not opening a letter upon its ...

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"There’s an addictive rush of seeing a simple challenge through to the end, knowing that everyone—even your fellow competitors—is cheering you on."...

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"What if—unfathomable—someone else was giving away an even better bread for free? The thought drove me crazy. I begged for the opportunity to investigat...

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“This is not grass. This is an entire system of devices, of build-up. It is complex – far more complex than people realize.” Andrea Woo for The Globe a...

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"For truckers, that stretch of New Orleans East had become an asphalt Bermuda Triangle—a treacherous gantlet best avoided." —Patrick Radden Keefe f...

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In the latest edition of the # longreads Top 5: • A f...

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"Most of the jewels were recovered in May 1962, after George led an LA Police detective to my great-grandmother Martha’s house." —Jennifer Cannon ...

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"Some internet searching has dredged up at least two tattooed variations—one a faithful replica, the other a satirical sendup with the woman’s ass cheek...

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"But he’d been using Sora to make AI videos of himself doing things he’s never done. And now he’s having trouble. Not with the videos. With his memory.&...

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"'A doorknob is a rock for the hand. It opens a hole in the wall,' Siken writes, and I can feel the rock in my hand. There is no metaphor here, ...

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"Ideas and turns of phrase shake loose on a long run. It’s thrilling." In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, New Yorker staff writer an...

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"But the business of dealing in people’s abandoned possessions, it turns out, can be fraught. Two years into his pursuit, he knows all too well that eve...

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"In devoting my attention to the distant past, I planned to finally deepen my understanding of this planet I took for granted." Read Elena Megalos&...

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"I expected connectivity like I expected air." Laura J. Martin for Noema: <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/limiting-not-just-screen-time-but...

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"You could only expect this to be horrendous, but then you’d still be caught off guard precisely when the horror strikes from an angle you never expecte...

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"Not only do both find cases, they find more cases, fatalities I hadn’t heard of and that were not reported by the media. How many more have escaped not...

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"This past November, about six months after his prognosis estimate had come and gone, Staubi learned that his cancer had gone into remission. That’s whe...

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"My cohort started referring to ourselves as the forgotten year. As we progressed, the program was vanishing behind us." Kennedy Lashley, as ...

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In this week's Top 5: · Chasing manhood (The New Yorker) · Naming the dead (WIRED) · Searching the stacks (Alta Journal)

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