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"No matter how much time he spent on r/dumbphones, no matter how many social media apps he deleted, his phone always ended up back in his hands." —...

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"He and other peace activists came to view the contents of draft boards’ filing cabinets as no different from bombs or bullets: They were just tools tha...

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"I watched a small son get pummelled. 'That was fun,' he said flatly when it was over. Heading back to the gym, one notably silent son told me t...

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"He found himself sucked into what he terms 'the algorithmic rage loop.' And he was questioning how work like his could avoid playing into that ...

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In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, best-selling author R. O. Kwon shares what she's reading these days, the word she overused in her first novel...

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"I come home that night empty-handed. No Yellow Bird. Not in the national libraries or in the cracked bookstores on Donceles or in the vaults of Morton ...

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"But young Gillian [Welch] cultivated another skill with great usefulness in the entertainment business: She started deflecting attention from herself w...

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"By finding the exact vocabulary for grief, I was trying to “wash” the faces of those falling in the streets just blocks away, reclaiming them from the ...

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"Cryopreservation doesn’t just preserve genetic lineages – it transforms extinction from a permanent loss into a temporary inconvenience we can choose t...

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"Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do." In a new visual essay for Longreads, Elena...

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"Instead, I seek my own language. I write again into the gap, asking whoever is on the other side to be willing to cross the distance." Sarah...

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"It is not impossible to imagine a league that gradually cedes all umpiring to technology in a drive toward adjudicatory perfection." —Elizabeth D....

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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up for 202...

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This week's Top 5: * Letting bodies be bodies (The Yale Review) * Nob Hill nobs (Slate) * Alpine abandonment (The Guardian) * Retire...

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"I hoped that, in the long hours of practicing, I might somehow cast aside the cynicism and despair overtaking my teaching and so rekindle my love of th...

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"If there is a feminist spin on alpine divorce, it’s what comes after the women are left behind." —Alaina Demopoulos for The Guardian <a hre...

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"When I arrived at Ava’s front steps last December, the doorbell went unanswered even though we’d set an appointment. Outside the house, every shade was...

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"As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe. Disgust, maybe, or pity. All my life I’d been told that...

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"From 1979 to the mid-1980s, they lived like kings across the Caribbean, buying property and planes and partying nightly with Jimmy Buffett and other pa...

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"Tickets for two 200-person shows sold out within hours of the announcement, so they added a third evening. The board was set, and Samson Fellows was fe...

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