"The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of 'Brave New World.'"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
"Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
How to Begin
"Jane O'Sullivan on first lines in fiction."
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Vauhini Vara
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Great Ozempic Experiment
"It's a new era of D.I.Y. medicine. Now the health establishment needs to catch up."
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• Peter Rubin
What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
"For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters."
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• Peter Rubin
How to Crash
"I thought of the pinkish, folded gel which in its mysteries congeal all my memories and dreams, and how it had been thrust from a moving vehicle onto an English road with nothing to protect it but the back of my skull."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Wayfinders
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• Seyward Darby
The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
"That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture—of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly."
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• Krista Stevens
Our Longing for Inconvenience
"The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
She Knows a Place
"For seven decades, the gospel singer Mavis Staples has troubled the opposition between chorus and soloist, background and lead."
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• Carolyn Wells
A Day with England’s Hunt Saboteurs
"Armed with drones, balaclavas and vegan sausage rolls."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Redshift
"Rehearsing for humanity’s future on Mars."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
How Our Grandmothers Made Us and Saved Us
"What evolution owes aging women."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Leaving America
"Americans have always moved away. These days, expat Lindsey Tramuta writes, record numbers are leaving or planning to leave in search of health care, civil rights, freedoms, even safety. Does exiting the United States mean you’ve given up? Not necessarily."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: the jaws of history; war and piece(s); the last day of camp; stay a while; picture me rollin’.
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• Peter Rubin
The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt
"Historians and nonfiction authors often glide over lived experience. They prefer actions, citations, details, dates. But I had just gone through something primal—something beyond my control and beyond the boundaries of modern life."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
What It’s Like to Go Through Perimenopause and Menopause in Prison
"Limited information and a lack of informed health care providers make this life transition even more difficult for incarcerated people."
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• Carolyn Wells
Fortress Yellowstone
"The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The California Town With Less Than 30 Residents Begging for Young People to Move In
"The gold that once drew opportunists to this slice of California now attracts a new generation."