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Sharing and publishing the best longform stories since 2009. An @automattic publication and the sister site of @Atavist. @[email protected]
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'My dead sister-in-law was a human being. She could not emulate a Hallmark movie mom. Nor can her humanity be flattened into a corny hologram smiling over the people who miss her.' #longreads
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'If the flytrap is destined to be confined to the greenhouses of Walmart and the community gardens of posh retirement communities, is it really surviving?'
Jackie Flynn Mogensen Mother Jones #longreads motherjones.com/environment/20…
'Female-to-female cunnilingus in hedgehogs. Like, just another day at the office.'
Lulu Miller Orion Magazine #longreads orionmagazine.org/article/homose…
'Strict gender roles and patriarchal family culture remain deeply ingrained in South Korea. But in recent years, more South Koreans have started to challenge these norms.'
Hawon Jung Al Jazeera English #longreads aljazeera.com/features/2023/…
'The crossword was becoming a mass movement in an era of mass movement: the Pennsylvania Railroad printed crosswords on its menus; the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stocked its seat backs with dictionaries.'
Natan Last @newyorker #longreads newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
'In his poetry and in his prose, Wiman demonstrates a fierce attention to both the first-order experience of reality and the second-order experience of meaning, merging them into something entirely new and sometimes transcendent.' —Casey Cep for The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…