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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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Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, always unexpected: here's every story we selected as our number five pick of the week in 2023: longreads.com/2023/12/28/bes…

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'The term cougar ... reflected our culture’s tendency to perceive such women as predators even as it glamorized them. (An older man who dates or marries a younger woman has no special name — that’s just a man.)' The Cut thecut.com/article/age-ga…

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Hard hitting and always unforgettable: here are all the stories we selected as our number one pick of the week in 2023: longreads.com/2023/12/26/bes…

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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.'

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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 motherjones.com/environment/20…

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'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 aljazeera.com/features/2023/…

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'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 newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

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'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/…

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